Children Quotes by John Dewey

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

— John Dewey

With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child…

— John Dewey

When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and…

— John Dewey

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

— John Dewey

I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of…

— John Dewey

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations…

— John Dewey

We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the…

— John Dewey

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the…

— John Dewey

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

— John Dewey

As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.

— John Dewey

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

— John Dewey

The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better…

— John Dewey

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

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society.

— John Dewey

“For, as I have suggested, disruption of the unity of the self is not limited to the cases that come to physicians…

— John Dewey

From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets…

— John Dewey

When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit…

— John Dewey

I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he…

— John Dewey

The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position…

— John Dewey

Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view…

— John Dewey

A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing…

— John Dewey

I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is…

— John Dewey

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children.

— John Dewey

What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education…

— John Dewey

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

— John Dewey