John Dewey Quotes about Growth

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

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

John Dewey

Growth, Fundamentals, Development

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.

John Dewey

Teaching, Growth, Quality

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

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

John Dewey

Growth, Understood

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

John Dewey

Maturity, Growth, Process

John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, Kappa Delta Pi

The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being.

John Dewey

Growth, Immaturity, Needs

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

John Dewey

Philosophy, Educational, Growth

John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Kappa Delta Pi

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

John Dewey

Education, Growth, Literacy

Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases.

John Dewey

Civilization, Achievement, Growth

John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.12, Read Books Ltd