John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, 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.
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Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity and sets us at noting and contriving.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
The self is not something ready-made but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
A democracy is more than a form of government, it is primarily a mode of associated living of conjoint communicated experience
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism, with which Christianity has been historically associated.