That we learn from experience, and from books or the sayings of others only as they are related to experience, are not mere phrases. But the school has been so set apart, so isolated from the ordinary conditions and motives of life' that the place where children are sent for discipline is the one place in the world where it is most difficult to get experience.
The above is from John Dewey and is included in a piece about project-based learning by Maurice Elias at Edutopia. To read more, click the above hyperlinked text.
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