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This is a collection of contributions by thinkers
throughout history which support the learning process as a birthright for human growth and
the development of life-long learning.
Informal Education. This
web-site is an excellent resource for exploring some of these educational thinkers. http://www.infed.org/thinkers/default.htm
John Dewey
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-dewey.htm
“I believe that all
education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of
the race…
Education must begin with a psychological
insight into the child’s (learner’s) capacities, interests, and habits. It must
be controlled at every point by reference to these same considerations. These powers,
interests, and habits must be continually interpreted – we must know what they mean.
They must be translated into terms of their social equivalents – into terms of what
they are capable of in the way of social service.”
(Excerpt from ‘My Pedagogic Creed,’ Dewey 1897) |
Friedrich Froebel
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-froeb.htm
The purpose of education is
to encourage and guide man as a conscious, thinking and perceiving being in such a way
that he become a pure and perfect representation of that divine inner law through his own
personal choice; education must show him the ways and meanings of attaining that goal.
(Foebel, 1826) |
Maria Montessori
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-mont.htm
First the education of the senses -
Then the education of the intellect -
"The essential thing is
for the task to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s (learner’s)
whole personality."
(Excerpt from ‘Absorbent Mind,' Montessori, 1949) |
Johann H. Pestalozzi
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-pest.htm
"Children
(learners) should not be given ready-made answers but should arrive at answers themselves.
To do this their own powers of seeing, judging, and reasoning should be activated, their
self-activity encouraged."
(Pestalozzi, 1801 as quoted by Silber, 1965) |
Jean Jacques Rousseau
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-rous.htm
"From the first
moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of
birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of
the exercise of our duty."
(Excerpt from ‘Discourse on Political Economy,' Rousseau,1755)
"Our real teachers are experience and emotion, and man will never
learn what befits a man except under its own condition."
(Excerpt from ‘Emile,' Rousseau, 1762) |
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