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Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.
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If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.
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The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.
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The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.
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Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life.
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By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
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An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.
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Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.
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Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and courage in readjustment.
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To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.
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If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect - its effect upon conscious experience - we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.
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Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
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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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Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
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