Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
Interpretation
Genuine teaching leads to improved understanding and conditions for students.
John Dewey emphasizes that effective teaching should empower students to enhance their circumstances and create a positive change in their environment. The essence of education is not just to impart knowledge, but to inspire individuals to apply that knowledge for improvement and progress.
In practice
A teacher might quote this when discussing the impact of their curriculum on students.
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an βism becomes so involved in reaction against other βisms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.
If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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