Alexandra

“Strait-jacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth of individuals in the intellectual springs of freedom without which there is no assurance of genuine and continued normal growth.”
― 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