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“A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.”

Quote by John Dewey

Book:Democracy And Education

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Democracy And Education

This seminal work delves into the intersection of democracy and education, examining how democratic principles can influence and be influenced by educational institutions and curricula. The author critically analyzes the historical and contemporary aspects of democratic education, offering insights into the development of democratic societies through education. more

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John Dewey was an American philosopher and educator, born on October 20, 1859, and died on June 1, 1952. He was a leading figure in the philosophy of pragmatism and had a profound impact on 20th-century education, philosophy, and the social sciences. more

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“Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.”

World Humans Littles Today Form Certain Values Attention Emotional Intellectual Reactions Association Output Thrift Emotional Reactions

Book:Democracy And Education

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“If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect - its effect upon conscious experience - we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.”

Ifs Believe Humans Wells May Has Beens Made Young Values Humanity Realizing Effects Lessons Conscious Ultimate Institutions Dealings

Book:Democracy And Education

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“In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing.”

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.”

Seems Might Order Savages

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“What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests.”

Character Interest Practice Lows Depth Grades Urgent

Book:Democracy And Education

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“To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of learning, and what they unconsciously know because they have absorbed it in the formation of their characters by intercourse with others, becomes an increasingly delicate task with every development of special schooling.”

Knows Men Character Jobs Special Development Tasks Delicate Splits Intercourse Formation Schooling

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Source: Democracy And Education

“What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.”

Social Nutrition Social Life Reproduction Physiological

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“Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.”

Process Party Common Communication Possession Disposition

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“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.”

Humans Facts Lying Quality Improvement Contribution Significance Association Immature

Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association in connection with the association of the older with the younger.”

Firsts Important Purpose Social Effects Connections Association Arrangements

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education