The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
John DeweyThat education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.
John DeweyThe ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.
John DeweyI believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.
John Dewey