Quote

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

John Dewey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
Aesthetician
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Professor
Psychologist
Sociologist
Teacher
Trade Unionist
Burlington
Vermont
Dewey
Heads
Ideal
Ideals
Regard
Society
Cannot
Something

More quotes by John Dewey

Image
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
John Dewey
Image
The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.
John Dewey
Image
How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?
John Dewey
Image
The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.
John Dewey
Image
As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society the village or street group of playmates is a community each business group, each club, is another.
John Dewey
Image
I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.
John Dewey
Image
Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.
John Dewey
Image
Thought is impossible without words.
John Dewey
Image
The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.
John Dewey
Image
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
John Dewey
Image
As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.
John Dewey
Image
Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself
John Dewey
Image
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.
John Dewey
Image
Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.
John Dewey
Image
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
Image
Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found wherever men are engaged in activity which is socially serviceable, but whose service they do not understand and have no personal interest in.
John Dewey
Image
The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself
John Dewey
Image
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.
John Dewey
Image
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
John Dewey
Image
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
John Dewey