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“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” “We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.” “The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
- Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process. John Dewey. Affair, Process, Constructive.
- We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience. John Dewey. Mistake, Learning From Mistakes, Learning Experience.
- 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. John Dewey.
- You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow. John Dewey. Yesterday, Today, Way.
- Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey. Life, Inspiring, Education.
- Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. John Dewey. Education, Future, Learning.
- 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.
- 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. John Dewey.
- 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. John Dewey.
- Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.
- 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.
- One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire. John Dewey. Teacher, Teaching, Successful.
17 quotes from Experience and Education: ‘The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.’
- John Dewey
- 1938
171 quotes from John Dewey: 'We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.', 'Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.', and 'Failure is instructive.
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The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.
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