The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right… — John Dewey Copy Share
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view… — John Dewey Copy Share
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and… — John Dewey Copy Share
A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting… — John Dewey Copy Share
The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking. — John Dewey Copy Share
Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens… — John Dewey Copy Share
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts… — John Dewey Copy Share
Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come… — John Dewey Copy Share
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. — John Dewey Copy Share
But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply… — John Dewey Copy Share
Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse… — John Dewey Copy Share
“When the organization called soul is free, moving and operative, initial as well as terminal, it is spirit. Qualities are both static, substantial, and… — John Dewey Copy Share
Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more… — John Dewey Copy Share
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other. — John Dewey Copy Share
