Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity. Parents educate their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purpose.


The Middle Works, 1899-1924 (ed. SIU Press, 1980) - ISBN: 9780809309337

John Dewey Quotes

Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the...

Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the...

Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the...

Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the...