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.
Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.
Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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