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...
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.
writing practice imagination
...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from executive 'doing.' Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature.
invasion inference leap
Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.
language enough
The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.
views growing action
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.
animal men training
Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.
mind verbs nouns
Mind is a verb not a noun.
imagination observation sensible
Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations.
ideal-society regard ideals
We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.
suffering connections enjoy
To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.
communication changed
To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.