That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the quality of experience is a fact most easily recognized in dealing with the immature.
John DeweyFundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.
John DeweySchools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
John DeweyThe end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
John Dewey