Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons". — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“The psychologist, in his most remote and technical occupation with mechanism, is contributing his bit to that ordered knowledge which alone enables… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“As an individual passes from one situation to another, his [sic] world, his environment, expands or contracts. He does not find himself… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. — 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
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