John Dewey cytaty

„Najbardziej palącą potrzebą ludzkiej natury jest pragnienie bycia ważnym.”

„Jeśli uczymy dzisiejszych uczniów tak, jak wczoraj, okradamy ich z przyszłości.”

“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”

“The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic.”

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

“We only think when confronted with a problem.”

“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

“Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.”

“The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.”

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

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

“Hunger not to have, but to be”

“The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”

“Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”

“Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.”

“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.”

“There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.”

“To me faith means not worrying”

“To free one's mind of chains is to free it of the care of what is acceptable or viewed so by society, this is when true freedom is discovered.”

“a problem well put is half solved.”

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”

“Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.”

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

“The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.”

“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.”

“We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.”

“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”

“p. 407–8 cited in: Hilary Putnam (2008) "Pragmatism and nonscientific knowledge" James Conant, Urszula M. Zeglen (2012) Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism.”

“…classic philosophy maintained that change, and consequently time, are marks of inferior reality, holding that true and ultimate reality is immutable and eternal. Human reasons, all too human, have given birth to the idea that over and beyond the lower realm of things that shift like the sands on the seashore there is the kingdom of the unchanging, of the complete, the perfect. The grounds for the belief are couched in the technical language of philosophy, but the grounds for the cause is the heart's desire for surcease from change, struggle, and uncertainty. The eternal and immutable is the consummation of mortal man's quest for certainty.”

“The ground of democratic ideas and practices is faith in the potentialities of individuals, faith in the capacity for positive developments if proper conditions are provided. The weakness of the philosophy originally advanced to justify the democratic movement was that it took individuality to be something given ready-made, that is, in abstraction from time, instead of as a power to develop.”