John Dewey Quotes

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country.

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

The public schools have indeed been the most powerful single engine of subversion that our enemies have used upon us.

In America, we started the public school system very early in the century, and as a consequence we had more skilled workers than any nation on Earth, which meant that we were more productive than any nation on Earth.

Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization. Two reasons sustain this position. In the first place, there is a universality in its operation, which can be affirmed of no other institution whatever... And, in the second place, the materials upon which it operates are so pliant and ductile as to be susceptible of assuming a greater variety of forms than any other earthly work of the Creator.

The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.

I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified.

When you say you don't think we should have public schools, they can't believe you mean that. You must mean that they should be smaller. But you can't really mean no public schools.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.

There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.

That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system.

If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.

When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.

In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.

90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools.