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The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.
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A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing would finally become automatic. It would not, however, be an act of recognition or deference on his part, till he did it with a certain end in view - as having a certain meaning.
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[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
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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.
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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.
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Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.
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Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?
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Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.
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Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated
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Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.
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All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.
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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
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In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having first secured control of our use of ourselves is a perilous affair. Without the control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind it may lead to anything.
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Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.
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To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.
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A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.
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That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious control of every educational procedure by reference to a single and comprehensive social purpose.
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When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.
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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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To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of learning, and what they unconsciously know because they have absorbed it in the formation of their characters by intercourse with others, becomes an increasingly delicate task with every development of special schooling.
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