John Dewey Quotes

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this and learn to imitate it, for man is an imitative animal.

Give me a child for the first 7 years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been found that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery..

What matters now is the well-being of our kids.

The fundamental purpose of schools is to grow adults.

We need to sort the kids out and educate them properly. After all, they are our future.

I think children learn through their parents.

My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.

A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

I believe the children are our future

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.

It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.

If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you have to tell your children that ordinary children tend to say things like 'I can run faster than you; I can draw better than you; I know things you don't know'. You have to tell them what normal children are like. Normal children are messed up and you have to tell them about that. But if you instruct your child in high correlation with the physical world, they won't be able to relate with normal children. Normal means mixed up as I use the word.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.