John Dewey Quotes

If we are to make any real, speedy and substantial progress, we must earnestly tackle this question and bring our educational policy and program on the lines suited to the genius of our people, consonant with our history and culture, and having regard to the modern conditions and vast developments that have taken place all over the world. .

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

Of course, no one should be trapped in bad schools or bad neighborhoods. No one. But I think we need to be asking a larger question: How do we change the norm, the larger context that people seem to accept as a given? Are we so thoroughly resigned to what "is" that we cannot even begin a serious conversation about how to create what ought to be?

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.

We've invested in Newark's children, the schools and teachers, and these are long-term bets that need a number of years to really pan out. We've seen and learned how important it is to listen to the community and really get a sense of what they need and want. And it's a long journey.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

There is always frustration from people who work in schools that things keep changing but it is an unfortunate truth with the world of work changing as rapidly as it is, we do have to change.

I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

Centuries have elapsed since schools were first established.... Because learning was viewed as the exclusive province of the samurai and his superiors, farmers, artisans, merchants and women have neglected it altogether.... There shall, in the future, be no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person .... Hereafter ... every man shall, of his own accord, subordinate all other matters to the education of his children.

Schools were not just places to learn. They were epicenters of social revolution.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

The only way communities will have great schools is if the people demand it.

I come from an academic background, and I have a genuine interest in social change.

The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and corruption in our society.

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.

The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.