Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
Interpretation
Learning is a broader process that extends beyond specific subjects.
John Dewey emphasizes that education is not limited to the mere acquisition of knowledge about a specific topic. Instead, he argues that learning involves a holistic approach where experiences, skills, and insights gained from various subjects and interactions contribute to a person's growth and understanding, suggesting that every learning experience has a broader impact on an individual's development.
In practice
In a speech about innovative teaching methods, you could quote Dewey to emphasize broad learning experiences.
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
Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
A good example is far better than a good precept.
I did not even finish my studies
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.
Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
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