When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and to give it over when it finds it, as it was, under other circumstances, to receive it. Multiply such an instance by the thousand details of daily intercourse, and one has a picture of the most permanent and enduring method of giving direction to the activities of the young.
John DeweyThe 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 DeweyThere is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.
John Dewey