A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.
John DeweyThe 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 DeweyScientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
John DeweyThe aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.
John DeweyIndividuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of others. But they are also interested, and chiefly interested upon the whole, in entering into the activities of others and taking part in conjoint and cooperative doings. Otherwise, no such thing as a community would be possible.
John Dewey