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
… has impressions made upon it by
Physical
things; it is a name for the purposeful…
18. Educational Values
… lies beyond the scope of direct
Physical
response is the sole way of escape from…
1. Education as a Necessity of Life
… life in its lowest terms—as a
Physical
thing. But we use the word "Life" to…
… applies. With the renewal of
Physical
existence goes, in the case of human beings,…
… immature members be not merely
Physical
ly preserved in adequate numbers, but that…
… rudimentary abilities necessary for
Physical
existence. The young of human beings…
… Such things cannot be passed
Physical
ly from one to another, like bricks; they…
… become a society by living in
Physical
proximity, any more than a man ceases to…
… those used. Such uses express
Physical
superiority, or superiority of position,…
… alone (alone mentally as well as
Physical
ly) would have little or no occasion…
… little attention as compared with
Physical
output.
2. Education as a Social Function
… is evidently not one of mere
Physical
forming. Things can be
Physical
ly transported…
… gets assimilated to a purely
Physical
process. But learning from language will…
… not only go out with each other
Physical
ly, but both are concerned in the going…
… imaginatively, they operate as pure
Physical
stimuli, not as having a meaning…
… played in our activities by remote
Physical
energies, and by invisible structures.…
6. Education as Conservative and Progressive
… formation from without, whether by
Physical
nature or by the cultural products…
3. Education as Direction
… need to discriminate between
Physical
results and moral results. A person may…
… separating from each other the
Physical
and social environments in which we live.…
… difference between an adjustment to a
Physical
stimulus and a mental act is that…
… point or meaning. It might be
Physical
ly controlled, but it would not be socially…
… been dealt with: namely, that
Physical
things do not influence mind (or form ideas…
… coarser and more tangible use of
Physical
means to accomplish results. A child…
… naked, as it were, in contact with
Physical
objects, and which believes that knowledge,…
… guaranteed by the fact that the
Physical
equipment in which it is incarnated leads…
… Since language represents the
Physical
conditions that have been subjected to…
… agencies for doing, with tools and
Physical
materials, to an extent rarely attained.…
… control is not the same thing as
Physical
compulsion; it consists in centering…
4. Education as Growth
… impotence. With reference to the
Physical
world, the child is helpless. He lacks…
… adapt themselves fairly well to
Physical
conditions from an early period suggests…
11. Experience and Thinking
… burn. Being burned is a mere
Physical
change, like the burning of a stick of wood,…
… consciousness is severed from the
Physical
organs of activity. The former is then…
… material. A premium is put on
Physical
quietude; on silence, on rigid uniformity…
… the normal play of children.
Physical
ly active children become restless and unruly;…
… connections are not those of mere
Physical
juxtaposition; they involve connection…
… taken which actually change some
Physical
conditions. And apart from such steps…
20. Intellectual and Practical Studies
… character; it has to do with
Physical
things in relation to the body. In contrast,…
… about education. The contempt for
Physical
as compared with mathematical and logical…
… reduce instruction to a kind of
Physical
gymnastic of the sense-organs (good like…
… p. 29), not response to direct
Physical
stimuli. And meaning exists only with…
… plane, the plane of specific
Physical
symbols. Just as the race developed especial…
10. Interest and Discipline
… by whether it supplies a mere
Physical
excitation to act in the way desired by…
… formed habits take care of the
Physical
movements and leave your thoughts free…
… mind is not concerned with the
Physical
manipulation of the instruments but with…
… external; merely mental nor merely
Physical
. Like every mode of action, it brings…