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John Dewey

Democracy and Education, The Schools of Utopia, Studies in Logical Theory

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Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education Table of Contents

The Child and the Curriculum

The School and Society

Schools Of To-morrow

The Schools of Utopia

Moral Principles in Education

Interest and Effort in Education

Health and Sex in Higher Education

My Pedagogic Creed

On Philosophy

German Philosophy and Politics

Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition

Studies in Logical Theory

Interpretation of Savage Mind

Ethics (with James Hayden Tufts)

The Problem of Values

Soul and Body

Logical Conditions of a Scientific Treatment of Morality

The Evolutionary Method As Applied To Morality: Its Scientific Necessity & Its Significance for Conduct

The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy

Nature and Its Good: A conversation

Intelligence and Morals

The Experimental Theory of Knowledge

The Intellectualist Criterion for Truth

A Short Catechism Concerning Truth

Beliefs and Existences

Experience and Objective Idealism

The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism

"Consciousness" and Experience

The Significance of the Problem of Knowledge

Essays in Experimental Logic

Reconstruction in Philosophy

Does Reality Possess Practical Character?

On Psychology

Psychology and Social Practice

Psychological Doctrine and Philosophical Teaching

Psychology as Philosophic Method

The New Psychology

How We Think

The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology

The Psychology of Effort

Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude et al.

The Ego as Cause

The Terms 'Conscious' and 'Consciousness'

On Some Current Conceptions of the term 'Self'

The Psychological Standpoint

The Theory of Emotion: Emotional Attitudes & the Significance of Emotions

The Psychology of Infant Language

Knowledge and Speech Reaction

Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology

On Politics

China, Japan and the U.S.A: Present-day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference

Letters from China and Japan

Criticisms of John Dewey

The Chicago School by William James

John Dewey's Logical Theory by Delton Thomas Howard

The Pragmatic Theory of Truth as Developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey by Denton Loring Geyer

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Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life

Summary. It is the very nature of life to strive to continue in being

Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function

Summary. The development within the young of the attitudes and

Chapter Three: Education as Direction

Summary. The natural or native impulses of the young do not agree with

Chapter Four: Education as Growth

Summary. Power to grow depends upon need for others and plasticity

Chapter Five: Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline

Summary. The conception that the result of the educative process is

Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive

Summary. Education may be conceived either retrospectively or

Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education

Summary. Since education is a social process, and there are many kinds

Chapter Eight: Aims in Education

Summary. An aim denotes the result of any natural process brought to

Chapter Nine: Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims

Summary. General or comprehensive aims are points of view for surveying

Chapter Ten: Interest and Discipline

Summary. Interest and discipline are correlative aspects of activity

Chapter Eleven: Experience and Thinking

Summary. In determining the place of thinking in experience we first

Chapter Twelve: Thinking in Education

Summary. Processes of instruction are unified in the degree in which

Chapter Thirteen: The Nature of Method

Summary. Method is a statement of the way the subject matter of an

Chapter Fourteen: The Nature of Subject Matter

Summary. The subject matter of education consists primarily of the

Chapter Fifteen: Play and Work in the Curriculum

Summary. In the previous chapter we found that the primary subject

Chapter Sixteen: The Significance of Geography and History

Summary. It is the nature of an experience to have implications which

Chapter Seventeen: Science in the Course of Study

Summary. Science represents the fruition of the cognitive factors in

Chapter Eighteen: Educational Values

Summary. Fundamentally, the elements involved in a discussion of value

Chapter Nineteen: Labor and Leisure

Summary. Of the segregations of educational values discussed in the

Chapter Twenty: Intellectual and Practical Studies

Summary. The Greeks were induced to philosophize by the increasing

Chapter Twenty-one: Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism

Summary. The philosophic dualism between man and nature is reflected in

Chapter Twenty-two: The Individual and the World

Summary. True individualism is a product of the relaxation of the grip

Chapter Twenty-Three: Vocational Aspects of Education

Summary. A vocation signifies any form of continuous activity which

Chapter Twenty-four: Philosophy of Education

Summary. After a review designed to bring out the philosophic issues

Chapter Twenty-five: Theories of Knowledge

Summary. Such social divisions as interfere with free and full

Chapter Twenty-six: Theories of Morals

Summary. The most important problem of moral education in the school

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1. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing.

As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.