As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
John DeweyOne can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.
John DeweyThe reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
John DeweyExperiences 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.
John DeweyFrom the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while, on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning at school. That is the isolation of the school — its isolation from life.
John Dewey