John Dewey Quotes

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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.

  John Dewey

  Education, Teaching, Thinking

  John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.161, SIU Press

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• We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

  John Dewey

  Mistake, Learning From Mistakes, Learning Experience

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  Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

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  Affair, Process, Constructive

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.32, 谷月社

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  You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

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  Yesterday, Today, Way

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

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  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.

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  Independent, Leader, Independence

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• The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

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  Real, Thinking, Problem

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  The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

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  Attitude, Desire, Important

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

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• All genuine education comes about through experience.

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  Genuine

  John Dewey (2007). “Experience And Education”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

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  Teacher, Powerful, Teaching

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• Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

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  Shadow, Bigs, Casts

  John Dewey (1985). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1931-1932”, p.163, SIU Press

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• The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

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  Keys, Skills, Interaction

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• All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Learning, Ideas

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• I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.

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  Teacher, Children, Educational

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.231, Indiana University Press

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• I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

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  Educational, Believe, Progress

  John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.93, SIU Press

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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".

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  School, Community, Lessons

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• Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

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  Mean, Democracy, Culture

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

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• The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

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  Preparation, Today, Wells

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• We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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  Thinking, Facts

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• Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication.

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  Country, Communication, Mean

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• Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

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  Democracies Have, Democracy, Generations

  John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.139, SIU Press

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• Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

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  Education, School, Order

  John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.408, SIU Press

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• Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

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  Spiritual, Choices Made, Discovery

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.351, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• 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.

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  Mind, Kind, Social

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

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