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To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.
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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking learning naturally results.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because they have withstood the tests of experiment and have emerged triumphant, were once speculative hypotheses.
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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
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The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any activity more than mechanical. Unfortunately, it is too customary to identify the imaginative with the imaginary, rather than with a warm and intimate taking in of the full scope of a situation.
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Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.
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Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.
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The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
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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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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.
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There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.
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Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.
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All genuine learning comes through experience.
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
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Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
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Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication.
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Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest these can be created only by education.
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The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities
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It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.
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