A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally. John Dewey More Quotes by John Dewey More Quotes From John Dewey A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action. John Dewey growing views action Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time. John Dewey fallacy notion study Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done. John Dewey organization education school Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil. John Dewey soil coins human-nature Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. John Dewey progress world thinking Education is life itself. John Dewey self-education education To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence. John Dewey connections enjoy suffering The result of the educative process is capacity for further education. John Dewey social-justice process education Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other. John Dewey creative facts thinking Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life. John Dewey education inspirational mean The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated. John Dewey order Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. John Dewey time inspirational memories Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning? John Dewey able ends use Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational. John Dewey quality educational past Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. John Dewey confidence life facts Instruction is important. John Dewey important instruction The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. John Dewey belief doe mean Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do. John Dewey horse different dog The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed. John Dewey expression self children Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs. John Dewey renewal process needs
