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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

... John Dewey A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...d persis- tent modes of tuition can we make sure of placing the scholastic methods in their true context. Society not only continues to exist by trans... ...al appropriates the purpose which actu- ates it, becomes familiar with its methods and subject matters, acquires needed skill, and is saturated with i... ...ng to Froebel, the actuating force is the presentation of symbols, largely mathematical, corresponding to the essential traits of the Absolute. When t... ...to Froebel, the mystic symbolic value of certain objects and acts (largely mathematical) stand for the Absolute Whole which is in process of unfolding... ...n its future. The most direct road for elementary students into civics and economics is found in consideration of the place and office of industrial o... ...pressions in the mind. Objective existence was then treated as having only quantitative aspects—as so much mass in motion, its only differences being ... ... of events, ignoring the qualities of the events. Hence its mechanical and quantitative char- acter. But in leaving them out of account, it does not e...

...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered i...

...tion as Growth ............................................................................................. 46 Chapter Five: Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline................................................... 58 Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive ........................................................... 74 Chapter Seven: The Democratic C...

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