Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative. John Dewey More Quotes by John Dewey More Quotes From John Dewey A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it. John Dewey stimulusanswersaction As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. John Dewey civilizationlongart Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. John Dewey flowerbeautifulmen The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality. John Dewey communityexpressionself The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion. John Dewey slaveliteratureschool Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier. John Dewey successfulteachingteacher For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities. John Dewey principlesneedsthinking Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies. John Dewey intelligentmattermean The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters. John Dewey environmentinfluenceschool a problem well put is half solved. John Dewey wellsproblemhalf What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. John Dewey communityeducationchildren Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. John Dewey inspirationallovelife We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. John Dewey factsthinking Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. John Dewey creativityemotionalreligious To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form has its own sort of happiness and unhappiness. From the elephant down to the flea... from the flea down to the sensitive and living molecule which is the origin of all, there is not a speck in the whole of nature that does not feel pain or pleasure. John Dewey painlifescience With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child should be growing in manhood. With respect to sympathetic curiosity, unbiased responsiveness, and openness of mind, we may say that the adult should be growing in childlikeness. John Dewey curiositymindchildren A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. John Dewey democracyformgovernment As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow. John Dewey live-for-todaylearningchildren The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end. John Dewey educationalendsprocess When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and an aristocratic social organization on the other, we get light on the opposition between technical scientific studies and refining literary studies. We have before us the need of overcoming this separation in education if society is to be truly democratic. John Dewey lightorganizationhands
