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• We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Discovery, Ideas

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 5: Ethics: 1908”, p.268, SIU Press

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• To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of learning, and what they unconsciously know because they have absorbed it in the formation of their characters by intercourse with others, becomes an increasingly delicate task with every development of special schooling.

  John Dewey

  Jobs, Character, Men

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

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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

  Sound, Connections, Facts

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.14, 谷月社

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• The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself.

  John Dewey

  Country, Careers, Different

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.218, 谷月社

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• Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. These deposits have found their way into educational institutions in the form of studies, distinct courses of study, distinct types of schools.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Struggle, School

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.187, 谷月社

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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.

  John Dewey

  Talking, Data, Justice

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.250, SIU Press

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• The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.

  John Dewey

  Giving, Mind, Quality

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.254, SIU Press

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• The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.

  John Dewey

  Selfishness, Gains, Facts

  John Dewey (2008). “The School and Society”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Real, Men

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.236, University of Illinois Press

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• The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even the powers needed for physical sustentation have to be acquired under tuition. How much more, then, is this the case with respect to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity!

  John Dewey

  Animal, Achievement, Humanity

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

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• Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases.

  John Dewey

  Civilization, Achievement, Growth

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.12, Read Books Ltd

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• Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties.

  John Dewey

  Wisdom, Thinking, Distribution Of Power

  John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.362, SIU Press

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• To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. One shares in what another has thought and felt and in so far, meagerly or amply, has his own attitude modified.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Communication, Share

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

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• The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

  John Dewey

  School, Army, Media

  John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.294, SIU Press

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• Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Feelings, Association

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.12, 谷月社

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• Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love's little bow Had laid time low.

  John Dewey

  Breakup, Littles, Bows

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1977). “The Poems of John Dewey”, p.14, SIU Press

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• To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

  John Dewey

  Order, Savages, Might

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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