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Quotations By John Dewey


Change
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Conflict
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Equality
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.

Experience
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Individuality
Independent self people (would be) a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future [...] (where) people will be defined by their associations.

Work
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.