Dewey+Quotes+ 

"Upon the ethical side, the tragic weakness of the present school is that it endeavors to prepare future members of the social order in a mdeium in which the conditions of the social spirit are eminently wanting." (S & S, p. 15)

"But the school has been so set apart, so isolated from the ordinary conditions and motives of life, that the place where children are sent for discipline is the one place in the world where it is most difficult to get experience - the mother of all discipline worth the name." (S & S, p. 17)

"There is very little place in the traditional schoolroom for the child to work." (S & S, p. 32)

"There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something." (S & S, p. 56)

"Moreover, if the school is related as a whole to life as a whole, its various aims and ideals - culture, discipline, information, utility - cease to be variants, for one of which we must select one study and for another another. The growth of the child in the direction of social capacity and service, his larger and more vital union with life, becomes the unifying aim; and discpline, culture, and information fall into place as phases of this growth." (S & S, pp. 91-92)