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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.

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

John Dewey
School, Community, Lessons

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.

John Dewey
Community, Entering, May
John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.28, Courier Corporation

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

John Dewey
Education, Children, Community
"The School and Society & The Child and the Curriculum".

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.

John Dewey
Self, Expression, Community

Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word.

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

The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community. If, however, they were all cognizant of the common end and all interested in it so that they regulated their specific activity in view of it, then they would form a community. But this would involve communication. Each would have to know what the other was about and would have to have some way of keeping the other informed as to his own purpose and progress.

John Dewey
Communication, Views, Community
John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.8, SIU Press

Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and forms of government or control, than existed in an entire continent at an earlier epoch.

John Dewey
Cities, Government, Community
John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

John Dewey
Communication, Ties, Community
John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.

John Dewey
Children, Childhood, Community
John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922”, p.71, SIU Press

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

John Dewey
Community, Improvement, Problem
John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.64, 谷月社

As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, is another.

John Dewey
Community, Groups, Village
John Dewey (0101). “Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.20, Prabhat Prakashan

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

John Dewey
Community, Understanding, Vices
John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.26, 谷月社

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