The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEYThe vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEYThe two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
JOHN DEWEYI believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
JOHN DEWEYHolding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
JOHN DEWEYEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
JOHN DEWEYThe path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
JOHN DEWEYMost notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEYTo me, faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEYHear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
JOHN DEWEYI believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
JOHN DEWEYWe may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
JOHN DEWEYOf all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
JOHN DEWEYThe only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
JOHN DEWEYA problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEYThe deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
JOHN DEWEYFailure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
JOHN DEWEY