John Dewey113 definitions
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Adaptation (n.) is nothing other than death when it has achieved its perfect form. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
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Adaptation (n.) is the desire to control environment.
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Art (n.) is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians... it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
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Art (n.) is a thing underlaid in all its manifestations by the basic pattern of relations of the live creature to his environment.
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The City (n.) is a place where, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and forms of government or control, than existed in an entire continent at an earlier epoch.
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Comfort (n.) is antithetical to learning. All learning begins only when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
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Communication (n.) is a process of sharing experiences till it becomes a common possession.
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Communication (n.) is the establishment of cooperation in an activity in which there are partners, and in which the activity of each is modified and regulated by the partnership.
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Communication (n.) is the making of something in common.
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Confidence (n.) is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
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Conflict (n.) is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.
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Culture (n.) is the capacity for constantly expanding the range and accuracy of one's perception of meanings.
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Democracy (n.) is a mode of associated living. It is less about each person's doing his or her own thing and more about individuals joining with others to contribute to and enjoy, each in his or her own way, the 'fruits' of shared activity.
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Democracy (n.) requires education insofar as a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority and must find a substitute in the kind of voluntary disposition and interest that only education can produce.
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Democracy (n.) is way of living that is rooted in cooperative, open inquiry leading to shared activity. Thus, the real failure of American democracy lies in our country's prevailing ethos of individual competition for material gain.
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Education (n.) is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.
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Education (n.) is not preparation for life... it is life itself.
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Education's (n.) goal is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education's (n.) result is capacity for further education.