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Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.
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Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and forms of government or control, than existed in an entire continent at an earlier epoch.
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Man's home is nature his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy.
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Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.
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In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.
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Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.
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To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.
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As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing achievements, but only such as make for a better future society. The school is its chief agency for the accomplishment of this end.
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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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We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether we design environments for the purpose makes a great difference.
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