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21 Jun 09

John Dewey - My Pedagogic Creed @ the informal education archives

  • In sum, I believe that the individual who is to be educated is a social
    individual and that society is an organic union of individuals. If we eliminate
    the social factor from the child we are left only with an abstraction; if we
    eliminate the individual factor from society, we are left only with an inert and
    lifeless mass. Education, therefore, must begin with a psychological insight
    into the child's capacities, interests, and habits. It must be controlled at
    every point by reference to these same considerations. These powers, interests,
    and habits must be continually interpreted--we must know what they mean. They
    must be translated into terms of their social equivalents--into terms of what
    they are capable of in the way of social service.
  • I believe that it is also a social necessity because the home is the form of
    social life in which the child has been nurtured and in connection with which he
    has had his moral training. It is the business of the school to deepen and
    extend his sense of the values bound up in his home life.
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20 Jun 09

Best Practices

  • One of the goals as educators is that we must help
    students learn to read effectively on the web and give them the
    tools to be successful.
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