 | Madonna Harrington Meyer - 2000 - 364 pages
...our own biological children" (Hopping 1998:4). At the core of this vision is John Dewey's mandate, "What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children" (19o2:3). The community of Hope Meadows, guided by this vision, works to embed all of... | |
 | Donald R. Hellison - 2000 - 284 pages
...shouldn't get used to. As John Dewey (I900) put it, "What the best and wisest parent wants for his [or her] own child, that must the community want for all of its children" (p. 3). What happens in schools is greatly affected by social conditions outside the schools. Some... | |
 | Richard D. Kahlenberg - 2004 - 408 pages
...the middle class on the basis of values. These parents take the view articulated by John Dewey — "what the best and wisest parent wants for his own...must the community want for all of its children." This moral argument should not be dismissed politically, particularly given that the subject is children.39... | |
 | 2001 - 172 pages
...fear and hatred from people around them more quickly than they catch measles. — Norman Vincent Peale the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children. — John Dewey C_y o often we wallow in our children's problems rather than exult in... | |
 | Chuck Collins, Pam Rogers, Joan P. Garner - 2000 - 294 pages
...right-wing agenda, whose end is to change forever the content and nature of public education. ( ( TT That the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must VV the community want for all its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely.... | |
 | James W. Fraser - 2002 - 390 pages
...individual child of our acquaintance." This was fair enough as a beginning, but Dewey extended these ideas. What the best and wisest parent wants for his own...and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy. . . . Here individualism and socialism are at one. Only by being true to the full growth of all the... | |
 | Anne Wescott Dodd, Jean L. Konzal - 2002 - 376 pages
...live in communities where the needs of children came first. In a democratic society, John Dewey said, "What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must be what the community wants for all its children."14 Whose life would not be improved if the community... | |
 | Joseph Featherstone - 2003 - 212 pages
...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,... | |
 | Humphrey Tonkin, Timothy G. Reagan - 2003 - 220 pages
...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...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 argue, if one is... | |
 | Nel Noddings - 2003 - 324 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
