While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association in connection with the association of the older with the younger.
John DeweyThe central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.
John DeweyYou can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.
John Dewey