Education Quotes by John Dewey · Page 4

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively…

— John Dewey

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we…

— John Dewey

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as…

— John Dewey

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

— John Dewey

Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they…

— John Dewey

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

— John Dewey

Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.

— 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

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc.,…

— John Dewey

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in…

— John Dewey

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to…

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

— John Dewey

Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means,…

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies…

— John Dewey

You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if…

— John Dewey

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot…

— John Dewey

To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of…

— John Dewey

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It…

— John Dewey

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

— John Dewey

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at…

— 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

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

— John Dewey

Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need…

— John Dewey