Dewey's most systematic work — arguing that education is not preparation for life but is life itself, and that democratic education is the key to democratic society.
Education as experience: children learn by doing, not by passive absorption of information — experience and reflection on experience are the core of education. Democracy and education are mutually constitutive: democratic society requires educated citizens who can think; genuine education produces people capable of democratic participation. The school as embryonic society: schools should be democratic communities in miniature. Against dualisms: mind/body, thought/action, individual/society.
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