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“A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof.”

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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Book:The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

Source: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

“Consensus demands communication.”

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Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. One shares in what another has thought and felt and in so far, meagerly or amply, has his own attitude modified.”

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Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.”

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“The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.”

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared, is educative to those who participate in it. Only when it becomes cast in a mold and runs in a routine way does it lose its educative power.”

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Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.”

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Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“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.”

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Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“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.”

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Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“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.”

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Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education