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“Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.”

Quote by John Dewey

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John Dewey was an American philosopher and educator, born on October 20, 1859, and died on June 1, 1952. He was a leading figure in the philosophy of pragmatism and had a profound impact on 20th-century education, philosophy, and the social sciences. more

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Source: Democracy And Education

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Source: Democracy And Education

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Art Moral Judging Perception Tasks Criticism Function Assuming Works Of Art Conception Appraise

Author:John Dewey

“With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child should be growing in manhood. With respect to sympathetic curiosity, unbiased responsiveness, and openness of mind, we may say that the adult should be growing in childlikeness.”

Should Mind May Children Problem Growing Economic Development Adults Curiosity Openness Devoted Manhood Sympathetic Coping Economic Problems Unbiased Responsiveness

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.”

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Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“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.”

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Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

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Source: Democracy And Education

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Ifs Should Different Philosophy Law Taught Broken Institutions Patterns Supreme Factors Different Things Customs Philosophy Of Education

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“The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.”

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Author:John Dewey