Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or… — 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
The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly… — 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
The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we… — 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
There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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