"Education is not an affair of 'telling' and……" — John Dewey

"Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process."

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205 Quotes by John Dewey

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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised…
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power…
The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete…
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social…
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that…
I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. 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…
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.

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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,… — Annie Besant
The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,… — Annie Besant
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed… — Ambrose Bierce
Active Evil is better than Passive Good. — William Blake
I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the… — Andrea Bocelli
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he… — Daniel J. Boorstin
As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers… — Allen Boyd
Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still… — Charlotte Bronte
When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer… — Jerry Brown
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our… — Les Brown

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