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Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing would finally become automatic. It would not, however, be an act of recognition or deference on his part, till he did it with a certain end in view - as having a certain meaning.
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The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
John Dewey
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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The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement
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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.
John Dewey
Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.
John Dewey
Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.
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The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.
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A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.
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We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all.
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The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.
John Dewey
A democracy is more than a form of government it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
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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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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
John Dewey
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
John Dewey
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
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The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into our disposition so as to enable us to adapt the environment to our needs and adapt our aims and desires to the situation in which we live is really knowledge.
John Dewey
Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means it is the whole of which they are ingredients.
John Dewey
Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.
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I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.
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