Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
John DeweyAdults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.
John DeweyI believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.
John DeweyEducation 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