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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.”

Quote by John Dewey

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

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Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

This book delves into the philosophical underpinnings of education, emphasizing the role of democracy in shaping educational environments and methodologies. It examines the relationship between democratic ideals and the development of knowledge and character in learners. 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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“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

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Source: Democracy And Education

“As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.”

Needs Teaching Resources Increase Structure Complexes Formal Teaching And Learning

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“As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.”

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

“By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals. Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process.”

Process Resources Ideals Various Aliens Agency Nurturing Robust Cultivating Fostering Trustees

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

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

“Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.”

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Source: Democracy And Education

“The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.”

Individual Environment Active Tendencies Mediums Surroundings Continuity

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.”

Courses Environment Influence Circumstances Concerned Surroundings Save Me

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.”

People Want Giving Wanted Life Is Speak Results Percent Grateful Committed Granted Being Thankful Thankful For You Grateful For You Give 100 Percent Thankful For Life Always Be Thankful

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“Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.”

Humans May Form Space Environment Creatures Time And Space Living Creatures

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Source: Democracy And Education

“Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.”

Way Acting Existence Environment Conditions Activity Mediums Passive Frustrating Sustaining Supposing

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education