Talk:John Dewey

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Does anyone know the source of ""Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living." which appears at Education? There is also "Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself." [1] --70.183.164.206 03:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

The first quote is from Dewey's My Pedagogic Creed (1897), Article Two: What the School Is. Both quotes are similar to one already on the Wikiquote page: "Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself." (Democracy and Education, 1916, p. 239) - InvisibleSun 03:36, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

"The breakdown of his philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to bring about a better society which should then improve education, and so on indefinitely. Correct education could not come into existence until an ideal state existed, and after that education would be devoted simply to its conservation. For the existence of this state he was obliged to trust to some happy accident by which philosophic wisdom should happen to coincide with possession of ruling power in the state" (John Dewey) This is an important quote because it tells what went wrong with this philosophy, and why it is not used today.

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Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to John Dewey. --Antiquary 19:21, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

• Science is "warranted assertability."

• We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

• We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

[edit] Democracy and Education (1916)

The article contains a very large amount of material from this work. I encourage editors to consider the difference between a collection of quotations and a condensed book. With too much of a good thing, an article may cease to effectively highlight brilliant words and ideas, becoming a different kind of thing, a sort of literary digest—not a bad thing, but perhaps not a Wikiquote thing. ~ Ningauble 18:40, 13 February 2009 (UTC)