Democracy and Education

Dewey, J.

8. Aims in Education

… instruction. It must suggest the kind of Environment needed to liberate and to organize…

1. Education as a Necessity of Life

… it expends in thus turning the Environment to account is more than compensated for…… continual readaptation of the Environment to the needs of living organisms.

2. Education as a Social Function

… By means of the action of the Environment in calling out certain responses. The required…In brief, the Environment consists of those conditions that promote or hinder, stimulate…… associated with others has a social Environment. What he does and what he can do…… influence them; by creating a certain Environment in other words. Food, bits and…… habit of action by changing the Environment to affect the stimuli to action will…… result thus far is that social Environment forms the mental and emotional disposition…… "unconscious influence of the Environment" is so subtle and pervasive that it affects…… immature get is by controlling the Environment in which they act, and hence think…… school is to provide a simplified Environment. It selects the features which are…… is the business of the school Environment to eliminate, so far as possible, the unworthy…… it is the office of the school Environment to balance the various elements in the…… in a jail, provide educative Environments for those who enter into their collective…… like a homogeneous and balanced Environment for the young. Only in this way can the…… influences of the various social Environments into which he enters. One code prevails…… through the intermediary of the Environment. The Environment consists of the sum…… necessary to provide a special social Environment which shall especially look after…1. The Nature and Meaning of Environment2. The Social Environment4. The School as a Special Environment

6. Education as Conservative and Progressive

… they are occupied with their Environment. The theory represents the Schoolmaster…… recapitulation of it. The social Environment of the young is constituted by the presence…… unadapted to their immediate Environment. The other point is that it is a part of…… heredity is opposed to that of the Environment, and the efficacy of the latter belittled.…… meaning-horizon. And since the Environment changes and our way of acting has to be…… of native activities with the Environment which progressively modifies both the activities…

3. Education as Direction

… direction is impossible. The Environment can at most only supply stimuli to call…… detail what is meant by the social Environment. We are given to separating from each…… change he effects in the physical Environment which is a sign to us of how we should…… a livelihood from a grudging Environment and securing a precarious protection against…… already seen, a specially selected Environment, the selection being made on the basis…… practice requires that the school Environment be equipped with agencies for doing,…… effective in the out-of-school Environment, they necessarily substitute a bookish,…1. The Environment as Directive

4. Education as Growth

… possesses to coping with the physical Environment.… to be physically in a social Environment; as if social forces exclusively existed…… It is an active control of the Environment through control of the organs of action.…… adjustment of an individual and his Environment. The definition expresses an essential…… interested in changing the whole Environment; there is much that we take for granted…… on past achievements. Only an Environment which secures the full use of intelligence…… uses his powers to transform his Environment, thereby occasioning new stimuli which…… static adjustment to a fixed Environment, and rigidity of habit, are all connected…… Habits give control over the Environment, power to utilize it for human purposes.…

11. Experience and Thinking

… action with the energies of the Environment. It says, virtually, "things are to be…

20. Intellectual and Practical Studies

… natural surroundings of the home Environment so as to give reality to ideas about…… activity is on the side of the Environment; the human being undergoes or suffers…… one bears in mind the social Environment of the Greeks and the people of the Middle…

10. Interest and Discipline

… connection with changes of the Environment. They are literally bound up with these…… the needs and resources of the Environment. Our economic conditions still relegate…… and train mind is to provide an Environment which induces such activity. On the other…

9. Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims

… their direct interaction with the Environment. This statement certainly covers the…… development," but to provide an Environment which shall organize them.… that the desirable ones have an Environment which keeps them active, and that their…… not to education apart from the Environment, but to provide an Environment in which…

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