Democracy and Education

1916

John Dewey's 1916 statement of what education is for: growth, shared experience, and the habits of a democratic society. The book makes the case for learning by doing against rote and rigid schooling.

Chapter One Education as a Necessity of Life
Chapter Two Education as a Social Function
Chapter Three Education as Direction
Chapter Four Education as Growth
Chapter Five Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline
Chapter Six Education as Conservative and Progressive
Chapter Seven The Democratic Conception in Education
Chapter Eight Aims in Education
Chapter Nine Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims
Chapter Ten Interest and Discipline
Chapter Eleven Experience and Thinking
Chapter Twelve Thinking in Education
Chapter Thirteen The Nature of Method
Chapter Fourteen The Nature of Subject Matter
Chapter Fifteen Play and Work in the Curriculum
Chapter Sixteen The Significance of Geography and History
Chapter Seventeen Science in the Course of Study
Chapter Eighteen Educational Values
Chapter Nineteen Labor and Leisure
Chapter Twenty Intellectual and Practical Studies
Chapter Twenty-one Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism
Chapter Twenty-two The Individual and the World
Chapter Twenty-Three Vocational Aspects of Education
Chapter Twenty-four Philosophy of Education
Chapter Twenty-five Theories of Knowledge
Chapter Twenty-six Theories of Morals