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John Dewey (/ˈduːi/; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, Georgist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey is one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the fathers of functional psychology. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Dewey as the 93rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century. A well-known public intellectual, he was also a major voice of progressive education and liberalism. Although Dewey is known best for his publications about education, he also wrote about many other topics, including epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, art, logic, social theory, and ethics. He was a major educational reformer for the 20th century.

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A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits - marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further.

Aims, Culture, Development, Discipline, Natural, Views

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

Wisdom, Liberty, Expansion, Already, Possessed, Demand

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

Democratic Ideals, May, Execution, Remote, Dominates, Democratic

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

Gaining, Mean, Reliable, Science, Systematic

Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.

Class, Expand, Peoples, Perceptible, Spring, War

A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.

Independence, Independent, Leader, Maintain, Social, System

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

Actually, Desire, Desired, Mean, Used

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

Connections, Enjoy, Learn, Suffer, Suffering

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

Association, Democracy, Government, Spiritual

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

Broadest, Continuity, Education, Inspirational, Mean, Sense

All direction is but re-direction; it shifts the activities already going on into another channel. Unless one is cognizant of the energies which are already in operation, one's attempts at direction will almost surely go amiss.

Activities, Activity, Direction, Energies, Energy, Operations

What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests.

Attaches, Character, Daily, Depth, Low, Practice

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

Keys, Skills, Interaction, Knowledge, Key

Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

Including, Mean, Pursuit, Respect, Sound, Understanding

In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity, to receive and to take from others. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences which educate some into masters, educates others into slaves.

Large, Number, Numbers, Opportunity, Order, Shared

The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear. . . . For this reason I do not think that those who are concerned about the future of a religious attitude should trouble themselves about the conflict of science with traditional doctrines.

Attitude, Intellectual, Religions, Religious, Scientific, Thinking

It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.

Commonplace, Distinctions, Problem, Quality, Way

Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties.

Wisdom, Thinking, Distribution Of Power, Liberation, Power, Liberties

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

Community, Understanding, Vices, Person, Shared

While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or any conventional status, but by his own nature as discovered in the process of education, he had no perception of the uniqueness of individuals. For him they fall by nature into classes, and into a very small number of classes at that.

Fall, Number, Numbers, Perception, Plato

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