Education Quotes by John Dewey · Page 3

Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon…

— John Dewey

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking;…

— John Dewey

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

— John Dewey

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

— John Dewey

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

— 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

The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness.…

— John Dewey

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

— John Dewey

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

— John Dewey

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

— John Dewey

While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or…

— John Dewey

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of…

— John Dewey

The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the…

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important…

— John Dewey

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

— John Dewey

Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some…

— John Dewey

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

— John Dewey

“Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important…

— John Dewey

An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each…

— John Dewey

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the…

— John Dewey

The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to…

— 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

Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

— John Dewey