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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.
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Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means; it is the whole of which they are ingredients.
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The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.
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An educated person is the person who has the power to go on and get more education.
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Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.
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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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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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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.
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Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.
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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.
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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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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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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
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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.
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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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All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.
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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.
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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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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.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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October 20, 1859
Died:
June 1, 1952
(aged 92)
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