Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. John Dewey More Quotes by John Dewey More Quotes From John Dewey But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself. John Dewey butterfly unique earthquakes Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other. John Dewey educational soul action 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 intellectual men history The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated. John Dewey government successful education I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground. John Dewey real believe children Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced. John Dewey educational teacher philosophy The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality. John Dewey inspire reality religion Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. John Dewey educational philosophy thinking An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force. John Dewey imagination reflection ideas Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France. John Dewey philosophical philosophy science The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda. John Dewey philosophical philosophy science Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid. John Dewey good-luck money stupid We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and experimentation to test the results of the synthesis. The observation of nature must be assiduous, just as reflection must be profound, and experimentation accurate. These three approaches are rarely found together, which explains why creative geniuses are so rare. John Dewey data reflection science When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the deepest and best guaranty of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmonious John Dewey self children school An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we take on and wear when we assimilate the culture of our own time and place. But intelligent furthering of culture demands that we take some of them off, that we inspect them critically to see what they are made of and what wearing them does to us. We cannot achieve recovery of primitive naïveté. But there is attainable a cultivated naïveté of eye, ear and thought. John Dewey recovery eye philosophy Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking. John Dewey rewards exercise thinking Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes. John Dewey lapses insult progress I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction. John Dewey college teaching thinking The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence. Science, or the highest knowing, was then identified with pure theorizing, apart from all application in the uses of life; and knowledge relating to useful arts suffered the stigma attaching to the classes who engaged in them. John Dewey class knowledge art Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. John Dewey nature mean death
