The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being. His instincts remain attached to their original objects of pain or pleasure. But to get happiness or to avoid the pain of failure he has to act in a way agreeable to others.

John Dewey

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Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an ac... by John Dewey

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

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We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on exp... by John Dewey

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

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You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare... by John Dewey

You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

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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.

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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.

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The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. by John Dewey

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob the... by John Dewey

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire... by John Dewey

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

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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.

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The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social prog... by John Dewey

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when... by John Dewey

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

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Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

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We only think when we are confronted with problems. by John Dewey

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

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Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is... by John Dewey

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

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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.

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