Experience & Education
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
― John Dewey
More Quotes by John Dewey . . .
“Each experience may be lively, vivid, and “interesting,” and yet their disconnectedness may artificially generate dispersive, disintegrated, centrifugal habits.”
“Just as no man lives or dies to himself, so no experience lives or dies to itself.”
“To discover what is really simple and to act upon the discovery is an exceedingly difficult task.”
“Does not the principle of regard for individual freedom and for decency and kindliness of human relations come back in the end to the conviction that these things are tributary to a higher quality of experience on the part of the greater number than are methods of repression and coercion or force?”
“Destroy the external conditions of present civilized experience, and for a time our experience would relapse into that of barbaric peoples.”
“For I am so confident of the potentialities of education when it is treated as intelligently directed development of the possibilities inherent in ordinary experience that I do not feel it necessary to criticize here the other route nor to advance arguments in favor of taking the route of experience.”
“It is a mistake to suppose that the principle of the leading on of experience to something different is adequately satisfied simply by giving pupils some new experience any more than it is by seeing to it that they have greater skill and ease in dealing with things with which they are already familiar.”
― John Dewey
More Quotes by John Dewey . . .
“Each experience may be lively, vivid, and “interesting,” and yet their disconnectedness may artificially generate dispersive, disintegrated, centrifugal habits.”
“Just as no man lives or dies to himself, so no experience lives or dies to itself.”
“To discover what is really simple and to act upon the discovery is an exceedingly difficult task.”
“Does not the principle of regard for individual freedom and for decency and kindliness of human relations come back in the end to the conviction that these things are tributary to a higher quality of experience on the part of the greater number than are methods of repression and coercion or force?”
“Destroy the external conditions of present civilized experience, and for a time our experience would relapse into that of barbaric peoples.”
“For I am so confident of the potentialities of education when it is treated as intelligently directed development of the possibilities inherent in ordinary experience that I do not feel it necessary to criticize here the other route nor to advance arguments in favor of taking the route of experience.”
“It is a mistake to suppose that the principle of the leading on of experience to something different is adequately satisfied simply by giving pupils some new experience any more than it is by seeing to it that they have greater skill and ease in dealing with things with which they are already familiar.”