John Dewey Quotes About Discipline

Quotes about: Discipline

• Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.

  John Dewey

  Past, Discipline, Effort

  John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.47, 谷月社

• A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.

  John Dewey

  Essence, Discipline, Confusion

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.98, 谷月社

• The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.

  John Dewey

  Home, School, Ideas

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.244, SIU Press

• There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

  John Dewey

  Intelligent, Discipline, Development

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.114, Kappa Delta Pi

• A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits - marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further.

  John Dewey

  Views, Discipline, Development

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.344, Courier Corporation

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