John Dewey Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• 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.

  John Dewey

  Education, Teaching, Thinking

  John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.161, SIU Press

• Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.

  John Dewey

  Education, Teaching, Views

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.111, Kappa Delta Pi

• Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Growth, Quality

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.132, 谷月社

• One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Successful

• Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.206, SIU Press

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

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Powerful, Teaching

• All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Learning, Ideas

• Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Successful

• The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Giving

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.85, Kappa Delta Pi

• What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Essence, Inquiry

• I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Thinking, College

• Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Mind

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.83, 谷月社

• To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Learning, Care

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.130, Sheba Blake Publishing

• That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Practice

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.32, 谷月社

• Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Good Day

• Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Responsibility, Imagination

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.11, Courier Corporation

• In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing.

  John Dewey

  Children, Teaching, Emotional

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.16, Read Books Ltd

• As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Needs, Structure

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.15, Courier Corporation

• As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, School, Skills

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

• Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, May, Commodity

  John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.140, SIU Press

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