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. John Dewey More Quotes by John Dewey More Quotes From John Dewey Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter. John Dewey democratic-ideals liberty two The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious. John Dewey educational religious struggle ...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from executive 'doing.' Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature. John Dewey imagination practice writing The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path. John Dewey path order school If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization. John Dewey demand realization ends Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them. John Dewey wings science knowledge The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others. John Dewey honesty integrity moving Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had. John Dewey depends quality There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication. John Dewey communication community ties A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for analyzing a special situation, the right or wrong being determined by the situation in its entirety, not by the rule as such. John Dewey acting principles special Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life. John Dewey curiosity giving science Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because they have withstood the tests of experiment and have emerged triumphant, were once speculative hypotheses. John Dewey audacity imagination science Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods. John Dewey giving-up military struggle Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed. John Dewey change education memories Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues. John Dewey soil mind lying Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests. John Dewey communication giving order Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties. John Dewey mystery men world The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today. John Dewey wells preparation today No man's credit is as good as his money. John Dewey money business men By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. John Dewey complexes distinction elements
