John Dewey
The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.Collection: Teacher
The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.Collection: Order
Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but helps the acts which follow.Collection: Mean
Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?Collection: Use
When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the deepest and best guaranty of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmoniousCollection: Children
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.Collection: Education
Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning.Collection: Running
Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of others. But they are also interested, and chiefly interested upon the whole, in entering into the activities of others and taking part in conjoint and cooperative doings. Otherwise, no such thing as a community would be possible.Collection: Community
Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.Collection: Teaching
...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from executive 'doing.' Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature.Collection: Writing
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.Collection: School
The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff."Collection: Luck
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.Collection: Philosophy
If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.Collection: Understanding
To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of knowledge that is supposed to be an ultimate end in itself, means that education accepts the present social conditions as final, and thereby takes upon itself the responsibility for perpetuating them. A reorganization of education so that learning takes place in connection with the intelligent carrying forward of purposeful activities is a slow work. It can be accomplished only piecemeal, a step at a time.Collection: Mean
As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing achievements, but only such as make for a better future society. The school is its chief agency for the accomplishment of this end.Collection: School
The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they aid in bringing about a sensing of the meaning of what is going on. In effect, if not in name, they are dramatizations.Collection: Exercise
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.Collection: Intelligent
Where there is giving there must be taking.Collection: Giving
All direction is but re-direction; it shifts the activities already going on into another channel. Unless one is cognizant of the energies which are already in operation, one's attempts at direction will almost surely go amiss.Collection: Energy
Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.Collection: Education
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.Collection: Equality
Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. In addition, the written form tends to select and record matters which are comparatively foreign to everyday life.Collection: Everyday
[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of othersCollection: School
Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.Collection: Teacher
Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itselfCollection: Moving
most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.Collection: Notable
A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.Collection: Answers
...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.Collection: Music
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.Collection: Mean
The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality.Collection: Self
A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.Collection: Progress
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.Collection: Knowledge
Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status.Collection: Powerful
The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.Collection: Home
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.Collection: Learning
When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.Collection: Needs
Balance is balancing.Collection: Balance
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.Collection: Religious
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.Collection: Suffering
The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.Collection: Preparation
Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth.Collection: Growth
It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.Collection: School
Thought is impossible without words.Collection: Impossible
Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.Collection: Preparation
Always make the other person feel important.Collection: Life Changing
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.Collection: Teaching
There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.Collection: Differences
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.Collection: Art