• Democracy and Education
  • Cover
  • 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
  • Index of Topics
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