In The Broad And Final Sense All Institutions Are Educational In The Sense That They Operate To Form The Attitudes, Dispositions, Abilities And Disabilities That Constitute A Concrete Personality.

In The Broad And Final Sense All Institutions Are Educational In The Sense That They Operate To Form The Attitudes, Dispositions, Abilities And Disabilities That Constitute A Concrete Personality.

Home › Fortune Cookies › Miscellaneous Collections

In the broad and final sense all institutions are educational in the sense that
they operate to form the attitudes, dispositions, abilities and disabilities
that constitute a concrete personality...Whether this educative process is
carried on in a predominantly democratic or non-democratic way becomes,
therefore, a question of transcendent importance not only for education itself
but for its final effect upon all the interests and activites of a society that
is committed to the democratic way of life.
-- John Dewey

Related:

Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and intere
these can be created only by education. -- John Dewey...
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children....
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children....
All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
All most people ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of their own importance.