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The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

John Dewey
Teacher, Teaching, Giving
John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.85, Kappa Delta Pi

It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.

John Dewey
Weed, Intelligent, Giving
John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.227, SIU Press

Where there is giving there must be taking.

John Dewey
Giving
John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.24, 谷月社

A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder.

John Dewey
Giving, Mind, Different
John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing

Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.

John Dewey
Science, Giving, Curiosity
John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Joe R. Burnett (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1899-1901”, p.145, SIU Press

Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.

John Dewey
Communication, Order, Giving
John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.6, 谷月社

When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and to give it over when it finds it, as it was, under other circumstances, to receive it. Multiply such an instance by the thousand details of daily intercourse, and one has a picture of the most permanent and enduring method of giving direction to the activities of the young.

John Dewey
Children, Giving, Parent
John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.24, 谷月社

The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.

John Dewey
Giving, Mind, Quality
John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.254, SIU Press

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