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John Dewey's Democracy and Education addresses the challenge of providing quality public education in a democratic society. In this classic work Dewey calls for the complete renewal of public education, arguing for the fusion of vocational and contemplative studies in education... Read Full Overview

Some hundred years after John Dewey worked to illuminate what it means to educate and how public education serves as the bedrock of democracy, his seminal Democracy and Education speaks urgently not only to critical contemporary educational issues but to contemporary political... Read Full Overview

John Dewey (1859-1952), writer of Democracy and Education, was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. The ideas like those in Democracy and Education have been very influential to education and social reform. In the classic book, Democracy and Education,... Read Full Overview

John Dewey's best-known and still-popular classic, Democracy and Educa­tion, is presented here as a new edition in Volume 9 of the Middle Works. Sidney Hook, who wrote the introduction to this volume, describes Democracy and Education: "It illuminates directly... Read Full Overview

First published in 1915, John Dewey's "Democracy and Education" is considered by many to be a landmark examination into the philosophy of education and its importance in a democratic society. In this influential treatise, Dewey argues for a progressive model of education because... Read Full Overview

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 into smaller... Read Full Overview

In Democracy and Education, Dewey argues that the primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. On one hand, there is the contrast between the immaturity of the new-born members... Read Full Overview

Book Excerpt: ring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing. In part, this sharing is direct, taking part in the occupations of adults and thus serving an apprenticeship; in part, it is indirect, through the dramatic plays in which children... Read Full Overview

Author of Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education, John Dewey (1859-1952), was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been very influential to education and social reform. John Dewey's most significant... Read Full Overview

In Democracy and Education, Dewey argues that the primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. On one hand, there is the contrast between the immaturity of the new-born members... Read Full Overview

John Dewey's best-known and still-popular classic, Democracy and Educa­tion, is presented here as a new edition in Volume 9 of the Middle Works. Sidney Hook, who wrote the introduction to this volume, describes Democracy and Education: "It illuminates directly... Read Full Overview

"Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. All of these words mean that it implies attention to the conditions of growth"

The following pages embody an endeavor to detect and state the ideas implied in a democratic society and to... Read Full Overview