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Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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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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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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Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity. Parents educate their children so that they may get on princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purpose.
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Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.
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Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.
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All of us have many habits of whose import we are quite unaware, since they were formed without our knowing what we were about. Consequently they possess us, rather than we them. They move us they control us. Unless we become aware of what they accomplish, and pass judgment upon the worth of the result, we do not control them.
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When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not as having a meaning or intellectual value. They set activity running in a given groove, but there is no accompanying conscious purpose or meaning.
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Always make the other person feel important.
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
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Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about data in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.
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Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
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Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
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We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.
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If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
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The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.
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We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.
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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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Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means it is the whole of which they are ingredients.
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