John Dewey Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

  John Dewey

  School, Literature, Slave

  John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.264, SIU Press

• Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Educational, Thinking

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.1, Kappa Delta Pi

• Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.6, SIU Press

• Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Educational, Growth

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Kappa Delta Pi

• It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

  John Dewey

  Children, Philosophy, Educational

  John Dewey (2010). “The Child and the Curriculum: Including the School and Society”, Cosimo, Inc.

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