Home / Quotes / Quote by John Dewey

Quote by John Dewey

“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.”

Quote by John Dewey

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

Work

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

Author

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

You May Also Like

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

Book:Democracy And Education

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

Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“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

Book:Democracy And Education

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

“A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.”

Doe Social Can Do Environment Depends Activity Demand Expectations Approval Condemnation Social Environment

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.”

Moving Conditions Activity Accounts Connected Tendencies Realization Indispensable

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.”

Thinking Feelings Action Social Behavior Association Hostile Cooperatives

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.”

Humans Different Action Form Human Beings Dog Habit Concerned Horse Association

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors