John Dewey Quotes

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  Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

  John Dewey

  Affair, Process, Constructive

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.32, 谷月社

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• We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

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  Mistake, Learning From Mistakes, Learning Experience

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  Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

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  Education, Teaching, Thinking

  John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.161, SIU Press

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  You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

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  Yesterday, Today, Way

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• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

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  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.

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  Independent, Leader, Independence

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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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  Real, Thinking, Problem

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  The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

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  Attitude, Desire, Important

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.49, Kappa Delta Pi

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• All genuine education comes about through experience.

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  Genuine

  John Dewey (2007). “Experience And Education”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

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  Teacher, Powerful, Teaching

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• All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

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  Teaching, Learning, Ideas

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• The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

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  Keys, Skills, Interaction

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• I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.

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  Teacher, Children, Educational

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.231, Indiana University Press

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• Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

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  Democracies Have, Democracy, Generations

  John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.139, SIU Press

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• The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

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  Democracies Have, Goal, Democracy

  "Democracy and Education".

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• We only think when we are confronted with problems.

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  Mistake, Failure, Thinking

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• The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

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  School, Community, Lessons

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• I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

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  Educational, Believe, Progress

  John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.93, SIU Press

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• There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.

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  Education, Law, Soul

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• The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

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  Preparation, Today, Wells

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• Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

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  Thinking, Creative, Facts

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• Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

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  Education, School, Order

  John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.408, SIU Press

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• The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

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  Spiritual, Choices Made, Discovery

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.351, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

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  Teacher, Children, Citizens

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• Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

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  Life, Confidence, Facts

  John Dewey (2015). “Human Nature and Conduct: Human Understanding”, p.70, 谷月社

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