John Dewey Quotes

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

A family is where character is formed, values are learned, ethics are created, and society preserved.

For most, the school is the first model of a community, and it can be a very powerful one. We need to ensure that young people are raised in educational communities that they admire and that they will seek to emulate or re-create for the rest of their lives.

I think children learn through their parents.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

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.

Peers often matter more than parents.

as wax receives its impression from a seal, so the character of human life is shaped by example.

School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.

Character is the result of two great forces: the initial force which the Creator gave it when He called the man into being; and the force of all the external influence and culture that mold and modify the development of a life.

As much as you plan your career and plan your life, there are events that will change everything 180 degrees, I’ve had multiple events like that. I always wanted to be a doctor and now I’m in the theater business. But these defining moments in your life are really what builds your character.

The fundamental purpose of schools is to grow adults.

By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with 'education.'

Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.

As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act and identify ourselves.

Children always tend to imitate everything that we are doing in front of them.

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

Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to be rendered cognizant of them and actively interested. Education, and education alone, spans the gap.

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.