All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
Interpretation
Learning occurs when we challenge our existing beliefs and realize they are not sufficient.
This quote by John Dewey emphasizes that true learning begins at the moment we question our preconceived notions and discover that they do not fully explain our experiences or the world around us. It suggests that discomfort and challenge are essential for growth, as they push us to seek deeper understanding and knowledge.
In practice
In a classroom discussion about education philosophies.
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.
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
There isnβt an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
I'm pretty omnivorous - in fact, I don't think of books in terms of genres. J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books are no more Y.A. reading, to me, than John le Carre's 'Smiley' novels are spy stories.
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.