John Dewey Quotes

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give something of yourself again and you receive something again. Life goes bad when people try to take from it without giving. Then they came away empty-handed, and they grab harder and more often, growing more disappointed and disillusioned each time.

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.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.

It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.

I like doing movies with kids in them, and you're explaining things. They're teaching you and you're teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.

And what will you give me in return, Severus?' 'In - in return?' Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, 'Anything.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.

I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.