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John Dewey Quotes: The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.
         

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.


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You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.



Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.



If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.



How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?



To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.



I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.



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