Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process. John Dewey More Quotes by John Dewey More Quotes From John Dewey If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. John Dewey gathering-data painting art The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools John Dewey army media school It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many. John Dewey burden slavery atheism There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods. John Dewey primitive-man attitude men The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed. John Dewey expansion liberty wisdom Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties. John Dewey distribution-of-power wisdom thinking For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention. John Dewey thank-god men religion To feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one concurrent fact the unfolding of the inner life and the ordered development of material conditions--that is art. John Dewey development facts art The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any activity more than mechanical. Unfortunately, it is too customary to identify the imaginative with the imaginary, rather than with a warm and intimate taking in of the full scope of a situation. John Dewey engagement imagination appreciation I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends. I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. John Dewey education believe children I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move. John Dewey educational believe moving Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing. John Dewey atheist men thinking Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. One in that case not merely conducts inquiry and learning without the use of the best instruments, but fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge. John Dewey reflection science knowledge One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching. John Dewey learning education teacher Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love's little bow Had laid time low. John Dewey bows breakup littles There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. John Dewey communication ties attitude Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference. John Dewey acceptance attitude ideas Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known. John Dewey inference leap invasion Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences. John Dewey connections done thinking To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. John Dewey changed communication
