The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. John Dewey More Quotes by John Dewey More Quotes From John Dewey Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative. John Dewey psychology goal action Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities. John Dewey truth education thinking [T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others John Dewey competition skills school I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals. John Dewey individualistic believe school Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself John Dewey moving-in currents moving That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the quality of experience is a fact most easily recognized in dealing with the immature. John Dewey immature quality lying Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association. John Dewey democracy government spiritual In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences. John Dewey available function Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import. John Dewey atheism criticism commitment Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man. John Dewey psychology medicine men One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. John Dewey good-intentions deeds heart When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled. John Dewey threatening influence needs That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about. John Dewey teaching practice teacher Experience, in short, is not a combination of mind and world, subject and object, method and subject matter, but is a single continuous interaction of a great diversity (literally countless in number) of energies. John Dewey diversity mind numbers Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business. John Dewey casts shadow bigs To pull at a rope at which others happen to be pulling is not a shared or conjoint activity, unless the pulling is done with knowledge that others are pulling and for the sake of either helping or hindering what they are doing. John Dewey rope done sake In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it? John Dewey office kings letters Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word. John Dewey tendencies community thinking The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt. John Dewey education teacher thinking As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance. John Dewey shadow substance long
