Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age ...of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formal...ism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledg...e of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Education must, then, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthen...er of the will to explore them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there ar...e individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and culture ...of their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeable... emotional state.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »