Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

The following pages embody an endeavor to detect and state the ideas implied in a democratic society and to apply these ideas to the problems of the enterprise of education. The discussion includes an indication of the constructive aims and methods of public education as seen from this point of view, and a critical estimate of the theories of knowing and moral development which were formulated in earlier socia…