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Democracy and Education

by John Dewey

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  1. 1Dedication — Chapter One — Education as a Necessity of Life
  2. 2Summary. It Is the Very Nature of Life to Strive to Continue in Being
  3. 3Chapter Two — Education as a Social Function
  4. 4Summary. The Development Within the Young of the Attitudes and
  5. 5Chapter Three — Education as Direction
  6. 6Summary. The Natural or Native Impulses of the Young Do Not Agree With
  7. 7Chapter Four — Education as Growth
  8. 8Summary. Power to Grow Depends Upon Need for Others and Plasticity
  9. 9Chapter Five — Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline
  10. 10Summary. The Conception That the Result of the Educative Process Is
  11. 11Chapter Six — Education as Conservative and Progressive
  12. 12Summary. Education May Be Conceived Either Retrospectively or
  13. 13Chapter Seven — The Democratic Conception in Education
  14. 14Summary. Since Education Is a Social Process, and There Are Many Kinds
  15. 15Chapter Eight — Aims in Education
  16. 16Summary. An Aim Denotes the Result of Any Natural Process Brought to
  17. 17Chapter Nine — Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims
  18. 18Summary. General or Comprehensive Aims Are Points of View for Surve…
  19. 19Chapter Ten — Interest and Discipline
  20. 20Summary. Interest and Discipline Are Correlative Aspects of Activity
  21. 21Chapter Eleven — Experience and Thinking
  22. 22Summary. In Determining the Place of Thinking in Experience We First
  23. 23Chapter Twelve — Thinking in Education
  24. 24Summary. Processes of Instruction Are Unified in the Degree in Which
  25. 25Chapter Thirteen — The Nature of Method
  26. 26Summary. Method Is a Statement of the Way the Subject Matter of an
  27. 27Chapter Fourteen — The Nature of Subject Matter
  28. 28Summary. The Subject Matter of Education Consists Primarily of the
  29. 29Chapter Fifteen — Play and Work in the Curriculum
  30. 30Summary. In the Previous Chapter We Found That the Primary Subject
  31. 31Chapter Sixteen — The Significance of Geography and History
  32. 32Summary. It Is the Nature of an Experience to Have Implications Which
  33. 33Chapter Seventeen — Science in the Course of Study
  34. 34Summary. Science Represents the Fruition of the Cognitive Factors in
  35. 35Chapter Eighteen — Educational Values
  36. 36Summary. Fundamentally, the Elements Involved in a Discussion of Value
  37. 37Chapter Nineteen — Labor and Leisure
  38. 38Summary. Of the Segregations of Educational Values Discussed in the
  39. 39Chapter Twenty — Intellectual and Practical Studies
  40. 40Summary. The Greeks Were Induced to Philosophize by the Increasing
  41. 41Chapter Twenty-One — Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Hu…
  42. 42Summary. The Philosophic Dualism Between Man and Nature Is Reflecte…
  43. 43Chapter Twenty-Two — The Individual and the World
  44. 44Summary. True Individualism Is a Product of the Relaxation of the Grip
  45. 45Chapter Twenty-Three — Vocational Aspects of Education
  46. 46Summary. A Vocation Signifies Any Form of Continuous Activity Which
  47. 47Chapter Twenty-Four — Philosophy of Education
  48. 48Summary. After a Review Designed to Bring Out the Philosophic Issues
  49. 49Chapter Twenty-Five — Theories of Knowledge
  50. 50Summary. Such Social Divisions as Interfere With Free and Full
  51. 51Chapter Twenty-Six — Theories of Morals
  52. 52Summary. The Most Important Problem of Moral Education in the School

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