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John Dewey quotes

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“They give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking, or the intentional noting of connections; learning naturally results.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“The moment we recognize that the self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action, the whole situation clears up.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“For it assumed that the aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education—or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“Nature offers simply the germs which education is to develop and perfect.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“One of the fundamental problems of education in and for a democratic society is set by the conflict of a nationalistic and a wider social aim.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“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.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“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.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“It would be impossible to find a deeper sense of the function of education in discovering and developing personal capacities, and training them so that they would connect with the activities of others.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“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.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“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.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“Now in many cases—too many cases—the activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“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.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“But after greater individualization on one hand, and a broader community of interest on the other have come into existence, it is a matter of deliberate effort to sustain and extend them.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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