John Dewey - Education Quotes

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

John Dewey
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.

John Dewey
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact.... [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect... their governors are educated.

John Dewey
Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

John Dewey
Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.

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

John Dewey
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
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

John Dewey
A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits—marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further.

John Dewey
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.

John Dewey
All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

John Dewey
That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.

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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.

John Dewey
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.

John Dewey
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

John Dewey