 | 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...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 version of wisdom,... | |
 | 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 child, that must the community want for all its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy."19... | |
 | 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 child, that must the community want for all its children" (Dewey, 1900/1956). The problem was that I held an implicit assumption that "the best... | |
 | 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...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 make it possible for... | |
 | 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...and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy. —The School and Society, MW 1: 5 How do we decide who are the "best and wisest" parents? What makes... | |
 | 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...must the community want for all of its children." In arguing that this is not enough, she introduces two important dimensions into the meaning of democratic... | |
 | 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...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 as they wrote... | |
 | 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 child, that must the community want for all its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy."38... | |
 | Howard S. Adelman, Linda Taylor - 2006 - 409 Seiten
...enhance healthy development. xvii Introduction What the best and wisest parent wants for his [or her] own child that must the community want for all of its children. Any other idea . . . is narrow and unlovely. — John Dewey Lack of success at school is one of the most common... | |
 | Craig Kridel, Robert V. Bullough Jr. - 2012 - 314 Seiten
...little to today's critic of progressive education. We are reminded, however, of John Dewey's remark: "What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children." 7 Even though many of the schools did not include the student diversity that we would... | |
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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. 
