John Dewey Quotes

School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group.

Learning isn't something you should only do solo.

No experience exists unless it's a shared one.

It's always been very important for me to be surrounded by people. It's never been enough for me to be successful alone. I want to be around people my own age who are also doing things I can learn from.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.

That's part of what I remember about seeing the movies that influenced me: the experience of watching them with a crowd and how they react to something.

Most of my enjoyable times in the theater have been working in a group.

I am a firm believer that transparency goes hand in hand with collective intelligence.

Half the point of education is to build peer groups and social bonds.

At a collective level, learning is an essential link in our society.

Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.

I always say, whether it's Liverpool or England, it's not just me who is a leader.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

It's impossible for one person to think of everything.

When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.

It is essential to view learning as a total community responsibility.