The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.
John DeweySome experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
John DeweyThe scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.
John DeweyIf the eyes are open and there is light, seeing occurs; the stimulus is but a condition of the fulfillment of the proper function of the organ, not an outside interruption. To some extent, then, all direction or control is a guiding of activity to its own end; it is an assistance in doing fully what some organ is already tending to do.
John Dewey