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

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

Affair, Process, Constructive

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.32, 谷月社

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.

Education, Teaching, Thinking

John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.161, SIU Press

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

Mistake, Learning From Mistakes, Learning Experience

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

Yesterday, Today, Way

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

Life, Inspiring, Education

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.

Independent, Leader, Independence

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

Real, Thinking, Problem

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

Attitude, Desire, Important

John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.49, Kappa Delta Pi

All genuine education comes about through experience.

Genuine

John Dewey (2007). “Experience And Education”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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

Teacher, Powerful, Teaching

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

Keys, Skills, Interaction

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

Teaching, Learning, Ideas

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.

Teacher, Children, Educational

John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.231, Indiana University Press

Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication.

Country, Communication, Mean

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

Educational, Believe, Progress

John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.93, SIU Press

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

School, Community, Lessons

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Inspirational, Motivational, Business

The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

Preparation, Today, Wells

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

Education, School, Order

John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.408, SIU Press

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Spiritual, Choices Made, Discovery

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.351, Sheba Blake Publishing

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

Democracies Have, Democracy, Generations

John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.139, SIU Press

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.

Education, Law, Soul

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.

Mean, Differences, Design

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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

Teacher, Children, Citizens

The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.

Growth, Fundamentals, Development

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