The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.
John DeweySociety not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.
John DeweyIn undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing.
John DeweyIt has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.
John Dewey