 | Nel Noddings - 2003 - 324 Seiten
...those who finish college and make a lot of money. John Dewey, in lines often misappropriated, said, "What the best and wisest parent wants for his own...is narrow and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy."19 Dewey did not mean, however, that the community should give all children exactly the... | |
 | Jonathan G. Silin, Carol Lippman - 2003 - 209 Seiten
...classroom experience that I saw in those middle-class kindergartens across the river. In Dewey's words, "What the best and wisest parent wants for his own...that must the community want for all its children" (Dewey, 1900/1956). The problem was that I held an implicit assumption that "the best and wisest parent"... | |
 | Joseph Featherstone - 2003 - 212 Seiten
...about democracy and education in the long haul. The apt quote, again, must come from John Dewey (1907): "What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children." The task in a democracy is to persuade parents and voters of at least some compromise... | |
 | Humphrey Tonkin, Timothy G. Reagan - 2003 - 220 Seiten
...complete sort of education possible. As the philosopher of education John Dewey so cogently asserted, "What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children" (1943: 7). The study of human languages must be a part of such education, we would... | |
 | Richard Sagor, Jonas Cox - 2004 - 321 Seiten
...very much longer. The words of two great educators are worth considering here: First, from John Dewey: "What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children." And, from James Comer: "Schools are going to have to modify the way they work to... | |
 | John Charles Boger, Gary Orfield - 2005 - 406 Seiten
...the twenty-first century. John Dewey, perhaps America's greatest educational theorist, wrote in 1900, "What the best and wisest parent wants for his own...is narrow and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy."38 schools? The finest investigators have concluded that even if racial resegregation were... | |
 | Donna Adair Breault, Rick Breault - 2005 - 178 Seiten
...democracy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Thirty-Nine The Best and Wisest Parent David J. Flinders What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our... | |
 | Nicholas M. Michelli, David Lee Keiser - 2005 - 316 Seiten
...'s expectations but adds an important caveat to one of Dewey 's most widely quoted positions, that "what the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children." In arguing that this is not enough, she introduces two important dimensions into... | |
 | George Pawlas - 2005 - 334 Seiten
...or a feedback sheet you would use after you had reviewed your teachers' conference summary sheets. What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. - John Dewey Perhaps the Florida Today editorial staff had John Dewey's words in mind... | |
 | Panos Vostanis - 2007 - 296 Seiten
...they have never known a mother or father or a grandparent is unthinkable. John Dewey wrote in 1902, 'What the best and wisest parent wants for his own...that must the community want for all its children.' Once we begin to view each child in the foster care system through this new lens - as our own son or... | |
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What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely ; acted upon, it destroys our democracy. 
