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Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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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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With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child should be growing in manhood. With respect to sympathetic curiosity, unbiased responsiveness, and openness of mind, we may say that the adult should be growing in childlikeness.
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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.
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In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity, to receive and to take from others. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences which educate some into masters, educates others into slaves.
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How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?
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Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.
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As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.
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If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.
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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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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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Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.
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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
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To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of learning, and what they unconsciously know because they have absorbed it in the formation of their characters by intercourse with others, becomes an increasingly delicate task with every development of special schooling.
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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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There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of the physical environment as an intermediary. A smile, a frown, a rebuke, a word of warning or encouragement, all involve some physical change. Otherwise, the attitude of one would not get over to alter the attitude of another.
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Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.
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Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
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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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