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Educational Quotes by John Dewey
- I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can…
- I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in…
- I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the…
- I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
- The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.
- Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
- Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
- Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.
- Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
- It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.
- Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
- Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
- There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and…
- The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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