Democracy and Education Quotes

“The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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“Now in many cases—too many cases—the activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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“An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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“A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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“They give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking, or the intentional noting of connections; learning naturally results.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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“Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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“The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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