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...
aliens nurturing various
By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals. Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process.
renewal
Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.
nutrition
What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.
immature passing-away belief
Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.
good-man action manners
Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.
immature guidance existence
In fact, the human young are so immature that if they were left to themselves without the guidance and succor of others, they could not acquire the rudimentary abilities necessary for physical existence.
life inspiring education
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
soil coins human-nature
Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.
equality term aim
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.
alertness open-minded process
Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and courage in readjustment.
realization demand method
If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.
important-relationships personality groups
Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less important relationships of life. Full education comes only when there is a responsible share on the part of each person, in proportion to capacity, in shaping the aims and policies of the social groups to which he belongs.
genuine
All genuine learning comes through experience.
future promise halos
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.