Dewey Cox Quotes

#1. Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning.

John Dewey

#2. Women were tricky creatures under the best of circumstances. This was not the best of circumstances.

Genevieve Dewey

#3. All genuine education comes about through experience.

John Dewey

#4. Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

John Dewey

#5. The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

John Dewey

#6. Kyle, you are a mellow dude ... You can't be with an agitator. And that's what she is. An agitator. She's a Jackson Pollock and you're a Thomas Kinkade.

Genevieve Dewey

#7. A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.

John Dewey

#8. If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Thomas Dewey

#9. I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals.

John Dewey

#10. The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

John Dewey

#11. The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

John Dewey

#12. To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

John Dewey

#13. The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

John Dewey

#14. We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

John Dewey

#15. Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

John Dewey

#16. Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

John Dewey

#17. The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

George Will

#18. I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.

John Dewey

#19. Yes, life was made up of these instances in time. Big moments hidden inside little decisions.

Genevieve Dewey

#20. As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

John Dewey

#21. A library after closing is a lonely place. It is heart-poundingly silent, and the rows of shelves create an almost unfathomable number of dark and creepy corners.

Vicki Myron

#22. In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings ... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

John Dewey

#23. Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume
an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and a change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them.

John Dewey

#24. We do not learn from experience ... we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey

#25. Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

John Dewey

#26. You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

John Dewey

#27. Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

John Dewey

#28. Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

John Dewey

#29. I want to be with you, Demetria. Go on dates, have sex and pointless arguments, figure out why you like to eat rabbit food, be the person you call first when you've had a bad day, come over and hold your hair when you're sick. How much clearer can I make this?

Genevieve Dewey

#30. Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

John Dewey