The difference between play and what is regarded as serious employment should be not a difference between the presence and absence of imagination, but a difference in the materials with which imagination is occupied. 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 growingviewsaction 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 fallacynotionstudy Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done. John Dewey organizationeducationschool 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 soilcoinshuman-nature Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. John Dewey progressworldthinking Education is life itself. John Dewey self-educationeducation 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 connectionsenjoysuffering The result of the educative process is capacity for further education. John Dewey social-justiceprocesseducation Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other. John Dewey creativefactsthinking Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life. John Dewey educationinspirationalmean 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 timeinspirationalmemories Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning? John Dewey ableendsuse 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 qualityeducationalpast Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. John Dewey confidencelifefacts Instruction is important. John Dewey importantinstruction The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. John Dewey beliefdoemean 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 horsedifferentdog The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed. John Dewey expressionselfchildren Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs. John Dewey renewalprocessneeds
