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This 5 page paper reviews the first five chapters of Dewey's book "Democracy and Education," and answers the question "What is education?" Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the prose awkward. But the first five chapters still carry a powerful message: education has a purpose, and that is to help people find their love of learning. This paper
reviews Deweys book and answers the question, "What is education?" Book Review The book Democracy and Education traces some of the connections between education and various aspects of life; written
in 1916, it has a somewhat old fashioned "feel" to it. The first chapter is called "Education as a Necessity of Life," and Dewey explains that education is as necessary
as food to society. He begins his book by describing life as a "self-renewing process," saying that "[W]hat nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life"
(Dewey, 1916). He believes that education is transmission through communication; he defines communication as shared experience (Dewey, 1916). The experience of communication affects both parties who are communicating, and in
education, both older and younger people are involved (Dewey, 1916). Further, as society becomes more complex, there is a greater need for formal education, but there is also a danger
here-there is a "split" between what is learned at school and what life is really like (Dewey, 1916). (This idea continues to this day, with many people looking down on
educated people, saying they live in "ivory towers" and dont understand whats going on in the real world.) Dewey believes that the increasingly technological means of instruction make the danger
of this split greater. Chapter Two, entitled "Education as a Social Function," Dewey writes that if we are to develop attitudes in our young people that will give them the
tools to create "continuous and progressive life of a society," we cannot do it directly (Dewey, 1916). We cannot hope to instill a sense of responsibility in young people by
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