{"author":"John Dewey","author_id":"John+Dewey","total_quotes":59,"quotes":[{"text":"The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.","author":"John Dewey","tags":["education","belief","mean "],"id":2223,"author_id":"John+Dewey"},{"text":"The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.","author":"John Dewey","tags":["limits","thought"],"id":23319,"author_id":"John+Dewey"},{"text":"Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.","author":"John Dewey","tags":["communication","experience","nature","philosophy-of-life"],"id":39807,"author_id":"John+Dewey"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Dewey","tags":["education","educational-system","philosophy","teaching"],"id":45796,"author_id":"John+Dewey"},{"text":"Confidence ... Is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.","author":"John Dewey","tags":["self","confidence"],"id":49278,"author_id":"John+Dewey"},{"text":"Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. Belief in the Common Man is a familiar article in the democratic creed. That belief is without basis and significance save as it means faith in the potentialities of human nature as that nature is exhibited in every human being irrespective of race, color, sex, birth and family, of material or cultural wealth. This faith may be enacted in statutes, but it is only on paper unless it is put in force in the attitudes which human beings display to one another in all the incidents and relations of daily life. To denounce Nazism for intolerance, cruelty and stimulation of hatred amounts to fostering insincerity if, in our personal relations to other persons, if, in our daily walk and conversation, we are moved by racial, color or other class prejudice; indeed, by anything save a generous belief in their possibilities as human beings, a belief which brings with it the need for providing conditions which will enable these capacities to reach fulfillment. The democratic faith in human equality is belief that every human being, independent of the quantity or range of his personal endowment, has the right to equal opportunity with every other person for development of whatever gifts he has.","author":"John Dewey","tags":["democracy","equality","fulfillment","human-nature","humanity","opportunity","possibilities","prejudice"],"id":54137,"author_id":"John+Dewey"},{"text":"Traditional education tended to ignore the importance of personal impulse and desire as moving springs. But this is no reason why progressive education should identify impulse and desire with purpose and thereby pass lightly over the need for careful observation, for wide range of information, and for judgment is students are to share in the formation of the purposes which activate them.","author":"John Dewey","tags":["education","progressive-education","purpose","smart-goals","traditional-education"],"id":55246,"author_id":"John+Dewey"},{"text":"To find out what one is fitted to do  and to secure an opportunity to do it  is the key to happiness.","author":"John Dewey","tags":["work"],"id":59305,"author_id":"John+Dewey"},{"text":"Time and memory are true artists they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.","author":"John Dewey","tags":["heart","memory","reality "],"id":65654,"author_id":"John+Dewey"},{"text":". . . Have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the heart of man is totally corrupt? How could the course of religion in its entire sweep not be marked by practices that are shameful in their cruelty and lustfulness, and by beliefs that are degraded and intellectually incredible? What else than what we can find could be expected, in the case of people having little knowledge and no secure method of knowing; with primitive institutions, and with so little control of natural forces that they lived in a constant state of fear?","author":"John Dewey","tags":["christianity","corrupt","cruelty","fear","heart","knowledge","primitive","religion","shame","superstition"],"id":75315,"author_id":"John+Dewey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}