John Dewey Quotes About Office

Quotes about: Office

• It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.

  John Dewey

  School, Opportunity, Office

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

• In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

  John Dewey

  Kings, Office, Letters

• One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious association. As a person passes from one of the environments to another, he is subjected to antagonistic pulls, and is in danger of being split into a being having different standards of judgment and emotion for different occasions. This danger imposes upon the school a steadying and integrating office.

  John Dewey

  Religious, School, Office

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

• The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Order

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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