Dewey quote There is a somewhat garbled quote to Dewey on theory and practice that I have now seen re quoted several times with this page as a the source I think we ought to help people get it right In section 3 1 we currently have As John Dewey put it there is no question of theory versus practice but rather of intelligent practice versus uninformed practice The actual quotation is The only distinction worth drawing is not between practice and theory but between those modes of practice that are not intelligent and those which are The source is Experience and Nature page 268 in Vol of the Later Works 1925 1981 And yes I could try and fix it myself but every time I try to do anything that involves a note to a reference I screw it up