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Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience (John Dewey Quotes)
The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it (John Dewey Quotes)
The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path. (John Dewey Quotes)
A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for analyzing a special situation, the right or wrong being determined by the situation in its entirety, not by the rule as such. (John Dewey Quotes)
The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being (John Dewey Quotes)
The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. (John Dewey Quotes)
A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons’ houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary. (John Dewey Quotes)
Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit. (John Dewey Quotes)
By reading the characteristic features of any man’s castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated. (John Dewey Quotes)
The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life (John Dewey Quotes)
An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience. (John Dewey Quotes)
There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished for its own sake. ... [K]knowledge is a possession held in trust for the furthering of the well-being of all (John Dewey Quotes)
Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing. (John Dewey Quotes)
The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems. (John Dewey Quotes)
All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral (John Dewey Quotes)
What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life (John Dewey Quotes)
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living (John Dewey Quotes)
Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.ÂŽ (John Dewey Quotes)
Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up (John Dewey Quotes)
Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs. (John Dewey Quotes)
Man’s home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy. (John Dewey Quotes)
Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms. (John Dewey Quotes)
The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning (John Dewey Quotes)
The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed. (John Dewey Quotes)
If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up. (John Dewey Quotes)
It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties. (John Dewey Quotes)
Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections. (John Dewey Quotes)
Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests. (John Dewey Quotes)
I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God. (John Dewey Quotes)
Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information. (John Dewey Quotes)