Alexandra

“A genuine purpose always starts with an impulse. Obstruction of the immediate execution of an impulse converts it into a desire. Nevertheless neither impulse nor desire is itself a purpose. A purpose is an end-view. That is, it involves foresight of the consequences which will result from acting upon impulse.”
― John Dewey, Experience and Education

“Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.”
― Ken Robinson, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

“A single course of studies for all progressive schools is out of the question; it would mean abandoning the fundamental principle of connection with life-experiences.”
― John Dewey, Experience and Education

“Traditional education tended to ignore the importance of personal impulse and desire as moving springs. But this is no reason why progressive education should identify impulse and desire with purpose and thereby pass lightly over the need for careful observation, for wide range of information, and for judgment is students are to share in the formation of the purposes which activate them”
― John Dewey, Experience and Education