Democracy and Education
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1. Education as a Necessity of Life
2. Education as a Social Function
3. Education as Direction
4. Education as Growth
5. Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline
6. Education as Conservative and Progressive
7. The Democratic Conception in Education
8. Aims in Education
9. Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims
10. Interest and Discipline
11. Experience and Thinking
12. Thinking in Education
13. The Nature of Method
14. The Nature of Subject Matter
15. Play and Work in the Curriculum
16. The Significance of Geography and History
17. Science in the Course of Study
18. Educational Values
19. Labor and Leisure
20. Intellectual and Practical Studies
21. Physical and Social Studies
22. The Individual and the World
23. Vocational Aspects of Education
24. Philosophy of Education
25. Theories of Knowledge
26. Theories of Morals
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Education as a Necessity of Life
Education as a Social Function
Education as Direction
Education as Growth
Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline
Education as Conservative and Progressive
The Democratic Conception in Education
Aims in Education
Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims
Interest and Discipline
Experience and Thinking
Thinking in Education
The Nature of Method
The Nature of Subject Matter
Play and Work in the Curriculum
The Significance of Geography and History
Science in the Course of Study
Educational Values
Labor and Leisure
Intellectual and Practical Studies
Physical and Social Studies
The Individual and the World
Vocational Aspects of Education
Philosophy of Education
Theories of Knowledge
Theories of Morals
Index of Topics
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8. Aims in Education
… first question is to define the
Nature
of an aim so far as it falls within an…
… extensive observation of the
Nature
and performances of the things he had to…
1. The
Nature
of an Aim
18. Educational Values
… treated in our analysis of the
Nature
of interest, and there is no difference…
… three further principles: the
Nature
of effective or real (as distinct from…
1. The
Nature
of standards of valuation. Every adult has acquired, in the course…
… involves not only an account of the
Nature
of appreciation as fixing the measure…
… they accept this view of the
Nature
of adult life, and set for themselves the…
1. The
Nature
of Realization or Appreciation
1. Education as a Necessity of Life
It is the very
Nature
of life to strive to continue in being. Since this continuance…
2. Education as a Social Function
… our own social affairs, but the
Nature
of the interaction cannot be understood…
1. The
Nature
and Meaning of Environment
6. Education as Conservative and Progressive
… material in order to fix the
Nature
of the original reactions, and, secondly,…
… without, whether by physical
Nature
or by the cultural products of the past,…
3. Education as Direction
… Since, by conception, his own
Nature
is quite alien to this process and opposes…
… to distort and pervert human
Nature
. To take into account the contribution made…
… art and the raw materials of
Nature
constitute by all odds the deepest and most…
… Consequently, we shall discuss the
Nature
and role of imitation in the formation…
… square with the other facts of
Nature
. Thus these appliances of art supply a…
… basic control resides in the
Nature
of the situations in which the young take…
4. Education as Growth
… of that period, the latter's
Nature
will largely turn upon the direction children's…
… to have certain properties of
Nature
at our disposal - and so with all other…
… an original plasticity of our
Nature
s: to our ability to vary responses till…
… namely, the merely privative
Nature
of immaturity, static adjustment to a fixed…
… anarchy a respect for the child's
Nature
? I answer, - Respect the child, respect…
11. Experience and Thinking
The
Nature
of experience can be understood only by noting that it includes an…
… flagrant partisanship of human
Nature
is evidence of the intensity of the tendency…
… invasion of the unknown is of the
Nature
of an adventure; we cannot be sure…
1. The
Nature
of Experience
20. Intellectual and Practical Studies
… inherently unstable and inadequate
Nature
of experience. The statement of Plato…
… brought into ken many new facts of
Nature
and had stimulated curiosity and speculation.…
… issue, because it is the very
Nature
of experience to instigate all kinds of…
… as Bacon put it, "anticipated
Nature
" and imposed merely human opinions upon…
… basing truth upon objects, upon
Nature
, led to looking at the mind as purely…
… in which fruitful ideas about
Nature
are obtained and tested. In other words,…
… external sort and even servile in
Nature
, one is not surprised that educators…
10. Interest and Discipline
… of rational discussion. By its
Nature
, the allegation could not be checked up.…