Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
Interpretation
Schools play a crucial role in shaping society by facilitating important organizational and constructive efforts.
John Dewey emphasizes the vital role that educational institutions have in the development and organization of society. He believes that schools should not merely be places for rote learning but should actively participate in the broader tasks of building and organizing the societal framework, thus preparing students to contribute meaningfully to their communities.
In practice
During a school board meeting, a member could use this quote to highlight the importance of educational reform.
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
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create something more perfect and more lasting than the life experience from which it came?
Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.
Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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