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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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Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.
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We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.
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Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society the village or street group of playmates is a community each business group, each club, is another.
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Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
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most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.
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Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?
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Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
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The phrase think for one's self is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.
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All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.
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Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.
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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.
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Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
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I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.
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If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.
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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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There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.
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