That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals. — 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
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing… — 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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