Quotes About Education John Dewey

#1. Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America - one of the so-called 'founders' was a Communist

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#2. There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.

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#3. What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children.

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#4. Education is life itself.

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#5. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

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#6. The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

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#7. The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.

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

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#9. Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

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#10. Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition

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#11. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

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#12. I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

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#13. Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.

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#14. Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.

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#15. The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

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#16. Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

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#17. I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

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#18. Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

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#19. One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

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#20. The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.

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#21. One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

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#22. Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

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#23. Education Proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws"- If the patterns of institutions, customs, and laws are broken for this philosophy education should fix itself. There should be several different things taught instead of one "Supreme Factor.

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#24. The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

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#25. Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.

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#26. The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

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#27. Strait-jacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth of individuals in the intellectual springs of freedom without which there is no assurance of genuine and continued normal growth.

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#28. Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

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#29. The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

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#30. Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

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#31. All genuine education comes about through experience.

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#32. Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

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#33. Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

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#34. Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

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#35. I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

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#36. Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake of immediate health, but for the sake of its lasting effect upon the habits of the mind.

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#37. Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.

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#38. A single course of studies for all progressive schools is out of the question; it would mean abandoning the fundamental principle of connection with life-experiences.

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#39. Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

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#40. All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

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#41. An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.

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#42. Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

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#43. 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.

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#44. The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

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#45. The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

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#46. Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.

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#47. 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 school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

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#48. It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

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#49. The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

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#50. As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

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