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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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The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even the powers needed for physical sustentation have to be acquired under tuition. How much more, then, is this the case with respect to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity!
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Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.
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The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality.
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The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they aid in bringing about a sensing of the meaning of what is going on. In effect, if not in name, they are dramatizations.
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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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To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.
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When reality is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.
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The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being. His instincts remain attached to their original objects of pain or pleasure. But to get happiness or to avoid the pain of failure he has to act in a way agreeable to others.
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Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general liberty, so to speak, at large.
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Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.
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It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.
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