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John Dewey

  • Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.... John Dewey {view}
  • Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.... John Dewey {view}
  • 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.... John Dewey {view}
  • Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.... John Dewey {view}
  • The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.... John Dewey {view}
  • As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure... John Dewey {view}