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...
democracy way moral
We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.
renewal
Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.
able use ends
Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?
genuine
All genuine learning comes through experience.
children believe demand
I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.
children recognition
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.
thinking venture neglect
I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.
giving mind quality
The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.
education responsibility ideas
It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of the experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented.
interest educate
If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task directed by personal interest rather than social need. Now it is a work of necessity.
money stupid good-luck
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
reason conclusion particular
Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.
teacher leader boss
The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities
intelligent discipline development
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.