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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.

  John Dewey

  Moving, Knowing, Judgment

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.38, Read Books Ltd

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• In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own territory, was comparatively homogeneous. But with the development of commerce, transportation, intercommunication, and emigration, countries like the United States are composed of a combination of different groups with different traditional customs. It is this situation which has, perhaps more than any other one cause, forced the demand for an educational institution which shall provide something like a homogeneous and balanced environment for the young.

  John Dewey

  Country, Educational, Diversity

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• A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

  John Dewey

  Past, Men, Littles

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

  John Dewey

  Nature, Animal, Purpose

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.181, University of Illinois Press

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• The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.

  John Dewey

  Environment, Individual, Surroundings

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.

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  Emotional, Intellectual, Attention

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.

  John Dewey

  Communication, Barriers, Intercourse

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To have an idea of a thing is not just to get certain sensations from it. It is to be able to respond to the thing in view of its place in an inclusive scheme of action; it is to foresee the drift and probable consequence of the action of the thing upon us and of our action upon it.

  John Dewey

  Views, Ideas, Our Actions

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.35, SIU Press

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• Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and general order. And what is strange about that? All creatures are involved in the life of all others, consequently every species... all nature is in a perpetual state of flux. Every animal is more or less a human being, every mineral more or less a plant, every plant more or less an animal... There is nothing clearly defined in nature.

  John Dewey

  Science, Animal, Men

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• Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

  John Dewey

  Change, Education, Memories

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.146, SIU Press

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• The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Order

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less important relationships of life. Full education comes only when there is a responsible share on the part of each person, in proportion to capacity, in shaping the aims and policies of the social groups to which he belongs.

  John Dewey

  Important Relationships, Personality, Groups

  John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.

  John Dewey

  Education, Communication, Science

  John Dewey (1978). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.77, SIU Press

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• That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief does not seem unreasonable. Nor is it absurd to expect that they should go forth with a lively interest in the ways in which knowledge is improved and a marked distaste for all conclusions reached in disharmony with the methods of scientific inquiry.

  John Dewey

  School, Knowledge, Science

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, H. S. Thayer (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1910-1911”, p.77, SIU Press

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• Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.

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  Education, Communication, Mean

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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.

  John Dewey

  Development, Action, Danger

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.35, Read Books Ltd

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• While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association in connection with the association of the older with the younger.

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  Important, Connections, Purpose

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

  John Dewey

  Community, Improvement, Problem

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.64, 谷月社

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• The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is based on the elementary laws of mechanics, a study of the equilibrium of the human body, the ways in which it is disturbed, how to recover your own and take advantage of the shifting of the center of gravity of the other person. The first thing that is taught is how to fall down without being hurt, that alone is worth the price of admission and ought to be taught in all our gyms.

  John Dewey

  Hurt, Fall, Law

  John Dewey, Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey (1921). “Letters from China and Japan”

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• But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply marked-off classes; it has taught us that original capacities are indefinitely numerous and variable. It is but the other side of this fact to say that in the degree in which society has become democratic, social organization means utilization of the specific and variable qualities of individuals, not stratification by classes.

  John Dewey

  Plato, Mean, Taught Us

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Vocabulary, Ordinary

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

  John Dewey

  Space, May, Environment

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

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  Communication, May, Said

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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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.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Responsibility, Imagination

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form has its own sort of happiness and unhappiness. From the elephant down to the flea... from the flea down to the sensitive and living molecule which is the origin of all, there is not a speck in the whole of nature that does not feel pain or pleasure.

  John Dewey

  Life, Pain, Science

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