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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
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As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.
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Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order
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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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We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all.
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Old ideas give way slowly for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.
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Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.
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For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.
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Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.
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While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing.
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If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.
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Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
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most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether we design environments for the purpose makes a great difference.
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The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself
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Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
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All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.
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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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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
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Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those they direct.
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