John Dewey Quotes

The understanding that women are not inferior across the world, it's something that you can get from school, not only from the book but also from chatting with other kids. It's a big impact. One of the curious things is that even when - and this we found from studies - the schools are doing pretty badly in terms of their education, about mathematics and literature and language, going to school transformed people because I think the action of schooling, the activity, is very important.

If you can teach a child, then her family and her future is taken care of.

I went to an all-girls' school with 43 people in my class, so dances were small. I always went with girlfriends or a blind date.

Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life.

Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to be rendered cognizant of them and actively interested. Education, and education alone, spans the gap.

The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.

Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

Good wine needs no bush.

We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.

There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have.

we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.

Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.

Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening.

To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.

I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.

I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly, to fit the people for social life - to make them good citizens. And who is to say what are good citizens? The government: there is no other judge. And who is to say how these good citizens may be made? The government: there is no other judge. Hence the proposition is convertible into this - a government ought to mold children into good citizens, using its own discretion in settling what a good citizen is and how the child may be molded into one.