In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it behooves the school to make ceaseless and intelligently organized effort to develop above all else the will for co-operation and the spirit which sees in every other individual one who has an equal right to share in the cultural and material fruits of collective human invention, industry, skill and knowledge
John DeweyThere is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.
John DeweyThere's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
John DeweyNot perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.
John DeweyPerhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
John DeweyEvery one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.
John Dewey