Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Riverside Educational Monographs EDITED BY HENRY SUZZALLO SOMETIME PROFESSOR OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, AND PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MORAL PRINCIPLES IN EDUCATION BY JOHN DEWEY PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON . NEW YORK . CHICAGO . DALLAS . SAN FRANCISCO The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY JOHN DEWEY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The author has drawn freely upon his essay on _Ethical Principles Underlying Education_, published in the Third Year-Book of The National Herbart Society for the Study of Education. He is indebted to the Society for permission to use this material. The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. THE MORAL PURPOSE OF THE SCHOOL II. THE MORAL TRAINING GIVEN BY THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY III. THE MORAL TRAINING FROM METHODS OF INSTRUCTION IV. THE SOCIAL NATURE OF THE COURSE OF STUDY V. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT OF MORAL EDUCATION OUTLINE INTRODUCTION _Education as a public business_ It is one of the complaints of the schoolmaster that the public does not defer to his professional opinion as completely as it does to that of practitioners in other professions. At first sight it might seem as though this indicated a defect either in the public or in the profession; and yet a wider view of the situation would suggest that such a conclusion is not a necessary one. The relations of education to the public are different from those of any other professional work. Education is a public business with us, in a sense that the protection and restoration of personal health or legal rights are not. To an extent characteristic of no other institution, save that of the state itself, the school has power to modify the social order. And under our political system, it is the right of each individual to have a voice in the making of social policies as, indeed, he has a vote in the determination of political affairs. If this be true, education is primarily a public business, and only secondarily a specialized vocation. The layman, then, will always have his right to some utterance on the operation of the public schools. _Education as expert service_