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...Contents Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function ......................................................................

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...n Dewey A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Democracy and Education by John Dewey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...tate University is an equal opportunity university. Contents Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life ............................................. .............................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function ............................................... ........................................................... 14 Chapter Three: Education as Direction ....................................................... ............................................................ 28 Chapter Four: Education as Growth .......................................................... ...cipline................................................... 58 Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive..................................... .............................. 74 Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education......................................................... 85 Chapt... ................................................... 85 Chapter Eight: Aims in Education ....................................................................

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...can dis- solve, in a state of incurable bickering and hostility. The early education of their children takes its colour from the squabbles of the pare... ...loye a perfectionner leurs sciences reelles, leurs lois, leur morale, leur education, la moitie des efforts qu’ils ont mis dans leurs recherches sur l... ...Shelley came among his fel- low-creatures, congregated for the purposes of education, like a spirit from another sphere; too delicately organized for ...

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... by the whole community. Plato and Aristotle both accept the view of moral education implied in this answer. In a passage of the Republic (492 b) Plat... ...e real sophists and the most complete and thor- ough educators. No private education can hold out against the irresistible force of public opinion and... ..., explains the paramount political impor- tance which Aristotle assigns to education. It is the great in- strument by which the legislator can ensure ... ...nt Classics for English readers), 1877; T. Davidson, Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals (Great Educators), 1892. A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT BOOK I... ...people ought to be made one, and a commu- nity, as I have already said, by education; as property at Lacedsemon, and their public tables at Crete, wer... ...made common by their legislators. But yet, whosoever shall intro- duce any education, and think thereby to make his city ex- cellent and respectable, ... ...tanding Socrates says they will not want many laws in consequence of their education, but such only as may be necessary for regulating the streets, th... ...g the streets, the markets, and the like, while at the same time it is the education of the military only that he has taken any care of. Besides, he m... ...u- lars, nor thought of what is connected therewith, their pol- ity, their education, their laws; besides, it is of no little con- 49 Aristotle seque...

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...ly ask, for I see that you, believing yourself to have arrived at the end of education and of phi- losophy, and to have had enough of them, are mounti... ...music, as she was in rhetoric. No wonder that a man who has received such an education should be a finished speaker; even the pupil of very inferior m... ...first of all praise the goodness of their birth; secondly, their nurture and education; and then let us set forth how noble their actions were, and ho... ... then let us set forth how noble their actions were, and how wor- thy of the education which they had received. And first as to their birth. Their anc... ...ers and mothers have no wrong done to them. The city her- self shares in the education of the children, desiring as far as it is possible that their o...

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...her words in deal ing with other cities a result worthy of her training and education. Now I, Critias and Hermocrates, am conscious that I myself sho... ...h they have been brought up; while that which is beyond the range of a man’s education he finds hard to carry out in action, and still harder adequate... ...eople of your class are the only ones remaining who are fitted by nature and education to take part at once both in politics and philosophy. Here is T... ...g; and as to Hermocrates, I am assured by many witnesses that his genius and education qualify him to take part in any speculation of the kind. And th... ... pouring down, and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education; and so you have to begin all over again like children, and kno... ...en whom he has created, and of whom some will have profited by the excellent education which you have given them; and then, in accordance with the tal... ...ecome a rational being. And if these combine in him with any true nurture or education, he attains the fulness and health of the perfect man, and esca... ...of the perfect man, and escapes the worst disease of all; but if he neglects education he walks lame to the end of his life, and returns imperfect and... ...m pelled to use; but I believe that you will be able to follow me, for your education has made you famil iar with the methods of science. In the fir...

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...nd inferior to ei- ther of them taken separately. Crito is anxious about the education of his children, one of whom is growing up. The description of ... ...dorus and Euthydemus suggests to him the reflection that the pro- fessors of education are strange beings. Socrates consoles him with the remark that ... ...g the follies of mankind, which he finds not un- pleasant. (Compare Apol.) Education is the common subject of all Plato s earlier Dialogues. The con... ...nd then about heaping up money for them and yet tak- ing no care about their education. But then again, when I contemplate any of those who pretend to...

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...nd naturally vulgar and nasal, is ready and fluent: nature, a Board School education, and some kerbstone practice having made him a bit of an orator. ... ... would enjoy having them here, Captain Brassbound; and it would be such an education for your men! (Brassbound stares at her with drying lips.) SIR HO...

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...norance that lead men to hate one another in the name of God. With such an education as that, I thought he was bound to grow up happy.” She was no the... ...lied Mr. Eager, “one has only sym- pathy for their success. The desire for education and for social advance—in these things there is some- thing not w... ... The boy— an innocent child at the time—I will exclude. God knows what his education and his inherited quali- ties may have made him.” “Perhaps,” said... ...oroughly unrefined. Let us put it down to his deplorable anteced- ents and education, if you wish. But we are no farther on with our question. What do... ... she had not minded. He perceived that these new tenants might be of value educationally. He would tolerate the father and draw out the son, who was s... ...— not till then—let them come to London. I don’t be- lieve in these London educations—” He broke off, remembering that he had had one himself, and con... ... mind tennis on Sunday—?” “George mind tennis on Sunday! George, after his education, distinguish between Sunday—” “Very well, George doesn’t mind ten... ... had long since forgotten his resolution to bring them to Windy Corner for educational purposes. “Proteges!” she exclaimed with some warmth. For the o... ...and her voice showed it. “Different—how—how—” “I haven’t had a really good education, for one thing,” she continued, still on her knees by the side- ...

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...es, and illiterate people, being of all others the least corrupted by custom, or bor- rowed opinions; learning and education having not cast their nat... ...several moral rules, and be convinced of their obligation. Others also may come to be of the same mind, from their education, company, and cus- toms o... ...nt here to offer that very ready but not very material answer, viz. that the innate principles of morality may, by education, and custom, and the gene... ... do acknowledge and agree in; and yet there are none of those principles which are not, by depraved custom and ill education, blotted out of the minds... ...ow which is the right. But concerning innate principles, I desire these men to say, whether they can or cannot, by education and custom, be blurred an... ...ciples in the world. I easily grant that there are great numbers of opinions which, by men of different countries, educations, and tempers, are receiv... ...taught that they ought not to examine, there are few to be found who are not exposed by their ignorance, laziness, education, or precipitancy, to take... ...g to examine them, but accustoming himself to believe them, because they are to be believed, may take up, from his education and the fashions of his c... ...greeable to those notions, which, if we will examine the whole course of men in their several ages, countries, and educations, seem to depend on those...

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...ankly set down in “Up from Slavery,” do not give quite a whole view of his education. He had the training that a coloured youth receives at Hampton, w... ...r. Hopkins, so Booker Wash- *For this interesting view of Mr. Washington’s education, I am indebted to Robert C. Ogden, Esq., Chairman of the Board of... ...nd the intimate friend of General Armstrong during the whole period of his educational work. 5 Booker T. Washington ington became a peculiarly recept... ...of New England, influenced by one of the strongest personalities in modern education, and the wide- reaching moral earnestness of General Armstrong hi... ... mind the plantation, the cabin, the slave, not the freed- man in quest of education. But on the plantation and in 6 UP FROM SLAVERY the cabin they h... ...ith an earnestness that put to shame the conventional student life of most educational institutions. Another song rolled up along the rafters. And as ... ... of all the races that have risen have worked,— responsible work, which IS education and character; and most of all when Negroes so teach Negroes to d... ...the country under lasting obligations to him. It was not and is not a mere educational task. Anybody could teach boys trades and give them an elementa... ...t and helpful hold on life in the South than anywhere else in the country. Education is not a thing apart from life—not a “system,” nor a philosophy; ...

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...child imprisonment and torture which we disguise under such hypocrisies as education, training, formation of character and the rest of it. This fact i... ... tell the whole truth about the people to whom children are handed over on educational pretexts. Not very long ago a schoolmaster in Ireland was murde... ...ps the greater part of the Greek alphabet. In short, I am, as to classical education, another Shakespear. I can read French as easily as English; and ... ...s statement the lie. Some years ago I lectured in Oxford on the subject of Education. A friend to whom I mentioned my intention said, “You know noth- ... ...riend to whom I mentioned my intention said, “You know noth- ing of modern education: schools are not now what they were when you were a boy.” I immed... ...ness OLDER CHILDREN might do a good deal before beginning their collegiate education. What is the matter with our universi- ties is that all the stude... ...e students are schoolboys, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be men. The function of a university is not to t... ...wledge IN A WORD, we have no right to insist on educating a child; for its education can end only with its life and will not even then be complete. Co... ...with its life and will not even then be complete. Compulsory completion of education is the last folly of a rotten and desperate civilization. It is t...

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...en wanted more than simple obedi ence, and they turned the whole force of education to effect their purpose. All women are brought up from The Subjec... ...ect of be ing attractive to men had not become the polar star of feminine education and formation of character. And, this great means of influence ov... ...omen wanted more than simple obedience, and they turned the whole force of education to effect their pur pose. All women are brought up from the very... ...ery charac teristic of either sex which can admit of being explained from education or external circumstances. The profoundest knowledge of the laws ... ... been a mistake. They never should have been allowed to receive a literary education. Women who read, much more women who write, are, in the existing ... ... and usually the martyrdom, of a still rarer elite. Institu tions, books, education, society, all go on training human beings for the old, long after... ...ring of bear ing children, and the whole responsibility of their care and education in early years, the wife undertakes the careful and economical ap... ...rt Mill 62 and men are but the natural effect of the differences in their education and circumstances, and indicate no radi cal difference, far less... ...d as men are with the results of other people’s experience, by reading and education (I use the word chance advisedly, for, in respect to the knowledg...

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...any, during some considerable portion of their lives. The present wretched education, and wretched social arrangements, are the only real hindrance to... ...se, may be in definitely reduced in dimensions by good physical and moral education, and proper control of noxious influences; while the progress of ... ... as possible in harmony with the interest of the whole; and secondly, that education and opinion, which have so vast a power over human character, sho... ...has not been accustomed to rest it. For the customary morality, that which education and opinion have consecrated, is the only one which presents itse... ...h they have taken of some of the consequences—until, by the improvement of education, the feeling of unity with our fel low creatures shall be (what ... ...ality is rec ognized; and the more powerfully, the more the appliances of education and general cultivation are bent to the purpose. So far as to ext... ...l happen that this asso ciation also, even after it had been implanted by education, might be analysed away. But there is this basis of powerful natu... ...d hold of and nourished by the contagion of sympathy and the influences of education; and a complete web of corroborative association is woven round i... ...e this feeling of unity to be taught as a religion, and the whole force of education, of institutions, and of opin ion, directed, as it once was in t...

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...g remark, that ‘the kings and statesmen of our day are in their breeding and education very like their subjects;’ or the anticipation that the ri- val... ...; for the laws he would substi- tute the intelligent will of the legislator. Education is originally to implant in men’s minds a sense of truth and ju... ...but even these are subordinate to him. (7) Fixed principles are implanted by education, and the king or statesman completes the political web by marry... ...he statesmen and kings of our own day very much resemble their sub- jects in education and breeding. On retracing our steps we find that we gave too n... ...r enemies. But the true art of gov- ernment, first preparing the material by education, weaves the two elements into one, maintaining au- thority over... ...g an unequal warfare with the beasts. At length he obtains such a measure of education and help as is necessary for his existence. Though deprived of ... ...nment sup- poses a degree of co-operation in the ruler and his subjects,—an ‘education in politics’ as well as in moral virtue; secondly , because gov... ... by laws. The divine foundations of a State are to be laid 37 Plato deep in education (Republic), and at the same time some little violence may be us... ... little violence may be used in exterminating natures which are incapable of education (compare Laws). Plato is strongly of opinion that the legisla- ...

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... greatest influence. The Republic of Plato is also the first treatise upon education, of which the writings of Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, ... ...e which is constructed by Socrates. The first care of the rulers is to be education, of which an outline is drawn after the old Hellenic model, provi... ...hilosophers” and “philosophers are kings;” and there is another and higher education, intellectual as well as moral and religious, of science as well ... ...are mainly occupied with the construction of the first State and the first education. The third division (3) consists of the fifth, sixth, and seventh... ...e sun in the visible world;—about human perfection, which is justice—about education be ginning in youth and continuing in later years—about po ets... ...rincipal respondent; but he has a difficulty in apprehend ing the higher education of Socrates, and makes some false hits in the course of the discu... ...nd let us pass a leisure hour in story telling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes. By all means. And what shall be their education? ... ...ns, gym nastic for the body, and music for the soul. True. Shall we begin education with music, and go on to gym nastic afterwards? By all means. An... ...and that an other sort will be used by a man of an opposite character and education. And which are these two sorts? he asked. Suppose, I answered, th...

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.... I should not permit myself to ex- press it so, speaking with a man of no education,” he said, “but I imagine that to you this is comprehensible.” Al... ... on, addressing Alexey Alexandrovitch. “My sym- pathies are classical from education, but in this discus- sion I am personally unable to arrive at a c... ...ic 43 Tolstoy studies is a difficult task, and the question which form of education was to be preferred would not have been so quickly and conclusive... ...ickly and conclusively decided if there had not been in favor of classical education, as you expressed it just now, its moral—disons le mot—anti-nihil... ...s, and remains indifferent to the influence its measures may exercise. The education of women, for instance, would naturally be regarded as likely to ... ...or women.” And the conversation at once passed to the new sub- ject of the education of women. Alexey Alexandrovitch expressed the idea that the edu- ... ...Pestsov; “it is a vicious circle. Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the 44 Anna Karenina – P... ...hey will most likely be perfectly fitted,” said Stepan Arkadyevitch, “when education has become general among them. We see this...” “How about the pro... ...up- posed, have been interested in what they were saying of the rights and education of women. How often she had mused on the subject, thinking of her...

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...el shame when our ignorance betrays us, but that too is part of gaining an education. We must learn to accept all the slings and arrows (to use a very... ...e of you may have noticed, isn t always fun, but at the col- lege level of education, it is very necessary in order to complete one s education. Writi... ...n the following: Nineteen hundred and ninty eight was a pivotal year in my educational experience. Bill Ellis preps for his Pop Culture course. I... ...m generation to genera- tion. Since discrimination is ignorance, per- haps education is the only way to stop it. We do not learn discrimination onl...

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...ledge, banded together against the few good and wise men, and devoid of true education. This creature has many heads: rhetoricians, lawyers, states m... ...osed to fall, and that is purification; and from purification is de scended education, and the new principle of edu cation is to interrogate men aft... ...wofold, simple ignorance, and ignorance having the conceit of knowledge. And education is also twofold: there is the old fashioned moral training of o... ...fication; and from mental purification, instruction; and from in struction, education; and from education, the nobly descended art of Sophistry, whic... ...nd the Sophist, or that his will ultimately prove to be the de sired art of education; but neither do I think that he can long escape me, for every w... ...man,—pri vately—for hire,—taking money in exchange— having the semblance of education; and this is termed Sophistry , and is a hunt after young men o... ...not the teaching of handicraft arts, but what, thanks to us, has been termed education in this part the world. STRANGER: Yes, Theaetetus, and by nearl... ...heaetetus, and by nearly all Hellenes. But we have still to consider whether education admits of any further division. THEAETETUS: We have. STRANGER: ... ... a division is possible. THEAETETUS: Where? 97 Sophist – Plato STRANGER: Of education, one method appears to be rougher, and another smoother. THEAET...

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...all progressives.” “Yes, indeed it can. You see, it’s the effect of over education, I assure you. For over education leads people to poke their no... ...u know best,” he added, as though offended. “I am an old man and not of much education. I began as a soldier’s son, and this year has been the jubilee...

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... be applied in time of peace to riv ers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education, and other great objects within each State. In time of war, if ... ... permanent funds for the support of civil gov ernment over them and for the education of their chil dren, for their instruction in the arts of husba... ...kened and de stroyed by reason of their extension of territory. Com merce, education, and rapid transit of thought and mat ter by telegraph and ste... ...rse, to bring the aborigines of the coun try under the benign influences of education and civi lization. It is either this or war of extermination: ... ...moral condition of the people. Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made fo... ...ld be surrendered to meet this danger by the savory influ ence of universal education. It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living t... ...d, clothed, and housed than their fathers were. The facilities for popu lar education have been vastly enlarged and more gen erally diffused. The vi... ...mical and honest government. At least until the good offices of kindness and education have been fairly tried the contrary conclusion can not be plaus... ...ught to be threatened by ignorance among the electors, the obvious remedy is education. The sympathy and help of our people will not be withheld from ...