John Dewey

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

John Dewey

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

John Dewey

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

No man’s credit is as good as his money.

John Dewey

No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.

John Dewey

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

John Dewey

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

John Dewey

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

John Dewey

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

John Dewey

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.

John Dewey