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Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

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The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

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Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by…

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Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

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That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as…

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The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with…

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The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific…

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Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of…

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It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions…

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There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of…

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right…

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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…

Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

“When the organization called soul is free, moving and operative, initial as well as terminal, it is spirit. Qualities are both static, substantial, and…

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more…

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

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