Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. John Dewey More Quotes by John Dewey More Quotes From John Dewey We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good. John Dewey discovery ideas 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. John Dewey men believe thinking Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned. John Dewey likes-and-dislikes often-is attitude It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. It is false that the evils of the situation arise from absence of ideals; they spring from wrong ideals. John Dewey sacrifice spring fall There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying. John Dewey purpose philosophy thinking Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake. John Dewey quality attitude men Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized. John Dewey certain choices self We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion. John Dewey emotion reason men Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail. John Dewey democracy mean culture Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action. John Dewey joints gains action It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought. John Dewey quality problem way The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself John Dewey identification problem discovery Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys. John Dewey commodity teaching may Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing. John Dewey information mean knowledge To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo. John Dewey halos future promise The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged. John Dewey conflict democracy special By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated. John Dewey reading air men Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying. John Dewey arriving dying sleep What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools. John Dewey children school thinking No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others. John Dewey advantage form nihilism
