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 DeweyAdequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but helps the acts which follow.
John DeweyGive the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
John DeweyCommunication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.
John DeweyIt science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.
John DeweyIn 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 Dewey