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
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18. Educational Values
… loaded down with purely inherited
Tradition
al matter and with subjects which represent…
… betrays the particular provincial
Tradition
within which the author is writing.…
2. Education as a Social Function
… come into existence when social
Tradition
s are so complex that a considerable part…
… communities, more differing customs,
Tradition
s, aspirations, and forms of government…
… different groups with different
Tradition
al customs. It is this situation which…
6. Education as Conservative and Progressive
… inspiration and subservience to
Tradition
. Moreover, everything in teaching and…
20. Intellectual and Practical Studies
… as a criticism of custom and
Tradition
as standards of knowledge and conduct. In…
… continued and reinforced the
Tradition
. To know reality meant to be in relation…
… opinions resting wholly upon
Tradition
and authority. With respect to all of them,…
… experience is a fatal defect of the
Tradition
al empirical philosophy. Nothing is…
… (iii) The most direct blow at the
Tradition
al separation of doing and knowing and…
… the increasing failure of their
Tradition
al customs and beliefs to regulate life.…
10. Interest and Discipline
… it has screened and protected
Tradition
al studies and methods of teaching from…
… matter to be learned. In the
Tradition
al schemes of education, subject matter means…
… say that, in contrast with the
Tradition
al theory, anything which intelligence…
… things in our historic educational
Tradition
s. It throws light upon the clash of…
19. Labor and Leisure
… physical action of which the
Tradition
al distinction between the liberal and the…
24. Philosophy of Education
… relation of man and nature, of
Tradition
and reflection, of knowledge and action.…
… reconsideration of the basic ideas of
Tradition
al philosophic systems, it is because…
21. Physical and Social Studies
… education. Our own comes by direct
Tradition
from it. It set a fashion which until…
… peoples. And its dependence upon
Tradition
was increased by the dominant theological…
As a consequence, the Greek
Tradition
was lost in which a humanistic interest was…
… may be suggested. (a) The old
Tradition
was firmly entrenched in institutions.…
… this procedure lies in following
Tradition
, rather than in conscious adherence…
… direct social control. Such a
Tradition
as to culture is, as we have seen (ante,…
15. Play and Work in the Curriculum
… specifically so called but many
Tradition
al kindergarten exercises have erred here.…
… fallacious, and the Puritanic
Tradition
which disallows the need has entailed an…
17. Science in the Course of Study
… manage to avoid the pitfalls of a
Tradition
al scholastic introduction into it.
There exists an educational
Tradition
which opposes science to literature and history…