John Dewey
John Dewey
John Deweywas an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey is one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the founders of functional psychology. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Dewey as the 93rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century. A well-known public intellectual, he was also a major voice of progressive education and liberalism. Although Dewey...
action danger importance
Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those they direct.
attitude quality aversion
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.
educational philosophy thinking
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
teacher educational philosophy
Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.
art knowledge class
The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence. Science, or the highest knowing, was then identified with pure theorizing, apart from all application in the uses of life; and knowledge relating to useful arts suffered the stigma attaching to the classes who engaged in them.
atmosphere spirit manners
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.
change desire able
Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.
teacher learning calling
Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.
home school ideas
The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.
weed aim
Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.
education school organization
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
lying mind soil
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
education children parent
What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children.
school accomplishment achievement
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.