The School and Society: Being three lectures — John Shaqi
The School and Society: Being three lecturesDewey, John
Philosophy
The School and Society: Being three lectures
Dewey, John
Education; Education -- Philosophy; Educational psychology; University of Chicago. University Elementary School
Just as the parts are separated, so do the ideals differ—moral
development, practical utility, general culture, discipline, and
professional training. These aims are each especially represented in
some distinct part of the system of education; and with the growing
interaction of the parts, each is supposed to afford a certain amount of
culture, discipline, and utility. But the lack of fundamental unity is
witnessed in the fact that one study is still considered good for
discipline, and another for culture; some parts of arithmetic, for
example, for discipline and others for use, literature for culture,
grammar for discipline, geography partly for utility, partly for
culture; and so on. The unity of education is dissipated, and the
studies become centrifugal; so much of this study to secure this end, so
much of that to secure another, until the whole becomes a sheer
compromise and patchwork between contending aims and disparate studies.
The great problem in education on the administrative side is to secure
the unity of the whole, in the place of a sequence of more or less
unrelated and overlapping parts and thus to reduce the waste arising
from friction, reduplication and transitions that are not properly
bridged.
[Illustration: Chart II]
Business
| 3. ^
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v |
+------------------+
| |
| |
Technical | |
Research ---> | |
| |
| | --->
4. University | School | 1. Home
| A | <---
| |
Professional <--- | |
Schools Teachers | |
| |
| |
+------------------+
^ |
| |
| v
{ Garden
2. { Park
{ Country
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