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Quotes About Community

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
~ John Dewey
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
~ John Dewey
Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less important relationships of life. Full education comes only when there is a responsible share on the part of each person, in proportion to capacity, in shaping the aims and policies of the social groups to which he belongs.
~ John Dewey
The only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life. To form habits of social usefulness and serviceableness apart from any direct social need and motive, apart from any existing social situation, is, to the letter, teaching the child to swim by going through motions outside of the water.
~ John Dewey
The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment. Common subject matter accustoms all to a unity of outlook upon a broader horizon than is visible to the members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the efficacy of the common and balanced appeal.
~ John Dewey
Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
~ John Dewey
I believe that the school must represent life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
~ John Dewey
The local is the only universal, upon that all art builds.
~ John Dewey
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
~ John Dewey
Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.
~ John Dewey
It was as though in a community susceptible to alcoholism, the Russians placed liquor bottles on every doorstep, and the press, the public, and Donald Trump encouraged everyone to open the door.
~ John Dickerson
People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.
~ John Doerr
we are not "the People of the Book." We are "the People with the Book," but even more importantly, we are "the People of the Person.
~ John Dominic Crossan
He only said what Christianity has never been able to follow, that within it all are equal and this is to be its witness and challenge to the world outside.
~ John Dominic Crossan
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
~ John Donne
No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee.
~ John Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
~ John Donne
Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
~ John Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
~ John Donne
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
~ John Donne
No man is an island, no man stands alone . . . Each man's death diminishes me, because I am involved with mankind . . .
~ John Donne
Send not to know For whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
~ John Donne
Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved with mankind.
~ John Donne
No man is an island entirely of itself. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.
~ John Donne