The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.
John DeweyThe real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.
John DeweyFor in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an โism becomes so involved in reaction against other โisms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
John Dewey