Democracy and Education
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- An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
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1. DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION2. Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life3. Summary. It is the very nature of life to strive to continue in being.4. Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function5. Summary. The development within the young of the attitudes and6. Chapter Three: Education as Direction7. Summary. The natural or native impulses of the young do not agree with8. Chapter Four: Education as Growth9. Summary. Power to grow depends upon need for others and plasticity.10. Chapter Five: Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline11. Summary. The conception that the result of the educative process is12. Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive13. Summary. Education may be conceived either retrospectively or14. Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education15. Summary. Since education is a social process, and there are many kinds16. Chapter Eight: Aims in Education17. Summary. An aim denotes the result of any natural process brought to18. Chapter Nine: Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims19. Summary. General or comprehensive aims are points of view for surveying20. Chapter Ten: Interest and Discipline21. Summary. Interest and discipline are correlative aspects of activity22. Chapter Eleven: Experience and Thinking23. Summary. In determining the place of thinking in experience we first24. Chapter Twelve: Thinking in Education25. Summary. Processes of instruction are unified in the degree in which26. Chapter Thirteen: The Nature of Method27. Summary. Method is a statement of the way the subject matter of an28. Chapter Fourteen: The Nature of Subject Matter29. Summary. The subject matter of education consists primarily of the30. Chapter Fifteen: Play and Work in the Curriculum31. Summary. In the previous chapter we found that the primary subject32. Chapter Sixteen: The Significance of Geography and History33. Summary. It is the nature of an experience to have implications which34. Chapter Seventeen: Science in the Course of Study35. Summary. Science represents the fruition of the cognitive factors in36. Chapter Eighteen: Educational Values37. Summary. Fundamentally, the elements involved in a discussion of value38. Chapter Nineteen: Labor and Leisure39. Summary. Of the segregations of educational values discussed in the40. Chapter Twenty: Intellectual and Practical Studies41. Summary. The Greeks were induced to philosophize by the increasing42. Chapter Twenty-one: Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism43. Summary. The philosophic dualism between man and nature is reflected in44. Chapter Twenty-two: The Individual and the World45. Summary. True individualism is a product of the relaxation of the grip46. Chapter Twenty-Three: Vocational Aspects of Education47. Summary. A vocation signifies any form of continuous activity which48. Chapter Twenty-four: Philosophy of Education49. Summary. After a review designed to bring out the philosophic issues50. Chapter Twenty-five: Theories of Knowledge51. Summary. Such social divisions as interfere with free and full52. Chapter Twenty-six: Theories of Morals53. Summary. The most important problem of moral education in the school