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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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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.
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Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience it stimulates and enriches imagination it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.
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By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
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Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.
John Dewey
We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.
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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
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Education is life itself.
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Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.
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Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
John Dewey
Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
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Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
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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.
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No man's credit is as good as his money.
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All direction is but re-direction it shifts the activities already going on into another channel. Unless one is cognizant of the energies which are already in operation, one's attempts at direction will almost surely go amiss.
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A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.
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When reality is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.
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While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association in connection with the association of the older with the younger.
John Dewey
Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.
John Dewey
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
John Dewey
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.
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