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Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.
From Democracy and Education
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Topic: Education
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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Topic: Happiness
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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Topic: Education, Philosophical
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.
From Experience and Education
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Topic: Education, Philosophical
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Topic: Motivational
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.
From A Common Faith
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Topic: Philosophical
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Topic: Education, Philosophical
The non-social character of the traditional school is seen in the fact that it erected silence into one of its prime virtues.
From Experience and Education
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Topic: Education
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.
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Topic: Education
Just because traditional education was a matter of routine in which the plans and programs were handed down from the past, it does not follow that progressive education is a matter of planless improvisation.
From Experience and Education
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For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
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On the other hand, if an experience arouses curiosity, strengthens initiative, and sets up desires and purposes that are sufficiently intense to carry a person over dead places in the future, continuity works in a very different way. Every experience is a moving force.
From Experience and Education
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Topic: Education
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.
From Democracy and Education
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Topic: Education
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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Topic: Happiness
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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Topic: Education, Philosophical
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.
From Experience and Education
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Topic: Education, Philosophical
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Topic: Motivational
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.
From A Common Faith
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Topic: Philosophical
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Topic: Education, Philosophical
The non-social character of the traditional school is seen in the fact that it erected silence into one of its prime virtues.
From Experience and Education
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Topic: Education
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.
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Topic: Education
Just because traditional education was a matter of routine in which the plans and programs were handed down from the past, it does not follow that progressive education is a matter of planless improvisation.
From Experience and Education
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Topic: Education
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
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Topic: Education
On the other hand, if an experience arouses curiosity, strengthens initiative, and sets up desires and purposes that are sufficiently intense to carry a person over dead places in the future, continuity works in a very different way. Every experience is a moving force.
From Experience and Education
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Topic: Education
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.
From Democracy and Education
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Topic: Education
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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Topic: Happiness
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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Topic: Education, Philosophical
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.
From Experience and Education
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Topic: Education, Philosophical
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Topic: Motivational
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.
From A Common Faith
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Topic: Philosophical
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Topic: Education, Philosophical
The non-social character of the traditional school is seen in the fact that it erected silence into one of its prime virtues.
From Experience and Education
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Topic: Education
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.
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Topic: Education
Just because traditional education was a matter of routine in which the plans and programs were handed down from the past, it does not follow that progressive education is a matter of planless improvisation.
From Experience and Education
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Topic: Education
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
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Topic: Education
On the other hand, if an experience arouses curiosity, strengthens initiative, and sets up desires and purposes that are sufficiently intense to carry a person over dead places in the future, continuity works in a very different way. Every experience is a moving force.
From Experience and Education
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Topic: Education