Dewey has a great deal of practical advise for educators who wish to form functioning adults capable of enjoying their lives. As a history teacher, I particularly like his comments on the necessity of teaching material with actual purpose to the students now rather than trying to convince them this

A philosophical text on the relationship between democracy and education written at the turn of the last century. Dewey discusses the role of industrialization in forming our educational system, and how this cannot hold up in a democracy. We cannot build cogs for a machine if we want a real democrac

Cái hay nhất của tư tưởng Dewey không phải lấy học sinh làm trung tâm như mọi người lầm tưởng. Mọi người đã hiểu quá sai về Dewey. Dewey là người khởi xướng phong trào chấm dứt tư duy nhị nguyên, đa nguyên ngấm sâu vào trong tiềm thức của các đất nước phương tây có tư tưởng "Dĩ âu vi trung"(lấy châu

I have read and taught this book several times. I first read it in 1974 (! True! I know! I look so youthful for my age!) when I was myself preparing to become an English teacher. It was work I read in a Philosophy of Education class, where Dewey's progressivism/experimentalism was opposed to essenti