John Dewey Quotes About Training

Quotes about: Training

• Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

  John Dewey

  Animal, Men, Training

• The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Good Man, Training

  John Dewey (2015). “How We Think: Top American Authors”, p.12, 谷月社

• 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 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

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