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The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality.
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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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Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
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Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and courage in readjustment.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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A democracy is more than a form of government it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
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Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
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If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.
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Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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The phrase think for one's self is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.
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Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
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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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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 man's credit is as good as his money.
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The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.
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