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...
teaching may commodity
Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.
knowledge mean doe
Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.
future promise halos
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.
mean school office
The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.
democracy special conflict
The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.
reality self goal
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.
believe fate years
Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.
communication order giving
Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.
character men special
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.
acting special tools
A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for analyzing a special situation, the right or wrong being determined by the situation in its entirety, not by the rule as such.
quality depends
Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.
real thinking problem
The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.
nutrition
What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.
school order path
The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.