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School Quotes by John Dewey
- The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free way within the…
- 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…
- Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right…
- That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief…
- Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order
- Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
- When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and…
- The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a…
- The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
- Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of…
- [T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that…
- In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it…
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- Lynn, you are honestly amazing. I have something to look forward to after school everyday. And that's too message you. Our conversations… — Jasmine Laura
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made… — Jensen Ackles
- I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't… — Amy Adams
- A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. — Henry Adams