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
In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social. — 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
Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a… — 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
If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation 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
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as… — 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
