John Dewey
John Dewey
John Deweywas an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey is one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the founders of functional psychology. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Dewey as the 93rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century. A well-known public intellectual, he was also a major voice of progressive education and liberalism. Although Dewey...
aim education enable improve load memory rather teach thoughts thoughts-and-thinking
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
children freedom thinking
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society.
thinking facts
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
thinking community single-word
Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word.
thinking creative facts
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
education teaching thinking
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
thinking self phrases
The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.
education teacher thinking
The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.
education teacher thinking
One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.
thinking peculiar research
We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for.
believe men thinking
When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.
thinking discovery views
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery and inquiry are synonymous as an occupation. Science is a pursuit, not a coming into possession of the immutable; new theories as points of view are more prized than discoveries that quantitatively increase the store on hand.
thinking feelings action
Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
lying thinking reflection
In general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things which determine our conscious thinking and decide our conclusions. And these habitudes which lie below the level of reflection are just those which have been formed in the constant give and take of relationship with others.