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
… childhood. So if it were not for adult
Language
, we should not be able to see…
18. Educational Values
… to hear or read about it. All
Language
, all symbols, are implements of an indirect…
… by most studies, but best by
Language
s and history; taste is trained by the more…
1. Education as a Necessity of Life
… born immature, helpless, without
Language
, beliefs, ideas, or social standards.…
2. Education as a Social Function
The importance of
Language
in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of…
Since
Language
tends to become the chief instrument of learning about many things,…
… accordingly, that the use of
Language
to convey and acquire ideas is an extension…
… marked. First, the habits of
Language
. Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of…
6. Education as Conservative and Progressive
… well expressed in the case of
Language
. If a being had no vocal organs from which…
3. Education as Direction
Language
is, as we have already seen (ante, p. 15) a case of this joint reference…
… the desired direction. Since
Language
represents the physical conditions that…
… with things. Not that the use of
Language
as an educational resource should lessen;…
4. Education as Growth
… of tobacco, liquor, or profane
Language
as typical of the meaning of habit. A…
9. Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims
… complete living, better methods of
Language
study, substitution of things for…
… illustration, the process of acquiring
Language
is a practically perfect model…
24. Philosophy of Education
… class which uses a technical
Language
, unlike the vocabulary in which the direct…
21. Physical and Social Studies
… linguistic training and to make the
Language
of the learned a literary
Language
…
… a sharp division made between
Language
and literature and the physical sciences.…
… the educational descent of the
Language
s as they are found in education to-day…
… saving, and expending money; and
Language
s and literature put in their claim to…