If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task directed by personal interest rather than social need. Now it is a work of necessity. John Dewey More Quotes by John Dewey More Quotes From John Dewey Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process. John Dewey constructive affair process We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience. John Dewey learning-from-mistakes learning-experience mistake You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow. John Dewey yesterday today way Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. John Dewey teaching education thinking A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young. John Dewey independence independent leader The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems. John Dewey problem real thinking Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey education inspiring life If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow. John Dewey powerful teaching teacher The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning. John Dewey important desire attitude I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences. John Dewey educational teacher children The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons". John Dewey lessons community school I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. John Dewey progress educational believe There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes. John Dewey soul law education We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether we design environments for the purpose makes a great difference. John Dewey design differences mean 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 quality growth teaching How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound? John Dewey citizens teacher children Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order John Dewey education order school We only think when we are confronted with problems. John Dewey failure mistake thinking Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife. John Dewey democracies-have generations democracy That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious control of every educational procedure by reference to a single and comprehensive social purpose. John Dewey educational country school
