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Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity.

Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity. Parents educate their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purpose.

Children, Views, Parent

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.72, 谷月社

Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.

Past, Discipline, Effort

John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.47, 谷月社

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.

School, Opportunity, Office

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and experimentation to test the results of the synthesis. The observation of nature must be assiduous, just as reflection must be profound, and experimentation accurate. These three approaches are rarely found together, which explains why creative geniuses are so rare.

Science, Reflection, Data

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

School, Pouring, Ignored

Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.

Teacher, School, Order

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.95, SIU Press

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.

Running, Learning, School

From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while, on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning at school. That is the isolation of the school — its isolation from life.

Children, School, Hands

"The Child and the Curriculum: Including the School and Society".

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.

Teaching, Growth, Quality

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.132, 谷月社

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.

Suffering, Connections, Enjoy

John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.215, SIU Press

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.

Mind, Kind, Social

John Dewey, Debra Morris, Ian Shapiro (1993). “The Political Writings”, p.119, Hackett Publishing

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect and who obey their governors are educated. Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.

Education, Successful, Government

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.66, 谷月社

Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth.

Growth, Understood

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

Democracies Have, Goal, Democracy

"Democracy and Education".

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

Study, Notion, Fallacy

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

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.

Change, Education, Mean

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.96, Courier Corporation

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

Goal, Psychology, Action

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, John J. McDermott (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1935-1937”, p.501, SIU Press

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.

Memories, Reflection, Sheep

John Dewey (2007). “Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology”, p.300, Cosimo, Inc.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Happiness, Work, Opportunity

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.311, Sheba Blake Publishing

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

Mean, Democracy, Culture

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.151, SIU Press

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

Preparation, Mere, Present Life

John Dewey (1967). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1893-1894. Early essays and The study of Ethics, a syllabus”, p.50, SIU Press

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

Path, Resistance, Ruts

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

War, Way, Heroic

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.

Coins, Soil, Human Nature

John Dewey (2012). “Human Nature and Conduct”, p.296, Courier Corporation

A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and small enough so that, in addition to the confusion naturally attending the novel elements, there shall be luminous familiar spots from which helpful suggestions may spring.

Art, Lying, Spring

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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