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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.

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

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

Life, Inspiring, Education

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

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

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Education, Future, Learning

John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.87, SIU Press

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

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

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

Education, Social Justice, Process

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

Education, Teacher, Learning

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

Inspirational, Education, Mean

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.4, Sheba Blake Publishing

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

Education, School, Organization

John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.411, SIU Press

It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of the experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented.

Education, Responsibility, Ideas

John Dewey (2007). “Experience And Education”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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.

Education, Teaching, Views

John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.111, Kappa Delta Pi

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

Education, Teacher, Thinking

John Dewey (2015). “How We Think: Top American Authors”, p.11, 谷月社

Education is life itself.

Education, Self Education

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

Education, Children, Community

"The School and Society & The Child and the Curriculum".

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.‎

Education, Science, Reality

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.49, Courier Corporation

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.

Education, Truth, Thinking

John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.1, Kappa Delta Pi

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

Education, Mean, Science

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.159, Courier Corporation

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

Education, Growth, Literacy

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.

Education, Successful, Government

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

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, Principles, Authority

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

I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends. I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Education, Children, Believe

John Dewey, Francis William Garforth (1966). “Selected educational writings”

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

Change, Education, Memories

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.146, SIU Press

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.

Education, Communication, Mean

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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