Intellectual Education And Mechanical Education, By Adam Smith

In Adam Smith’s article, he mentions several situations of different works or jobs effecting human beings’ life. First of all, Smith states that simple operation, which does not require high intelligence and much thinking, usually leads the worker to become “as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.” In other words, due to the mechanical work requires each individual to focus on the job he or she has, most individuals slowly lose the attention to other thing that does not relate to his or her job, and mechanization of work causes the lack of innovation and the torpor of peoples’ minds. On the other hand, Smith mentions another society in which most people have their duties to do different work is able to keep the invention alive so that the mind will not fall into drowsy stupidity. Therefore, Smith tries to demonstrate that touching new thing and various fields for exercising mind is very necessary to an …show more content…
Dewey describes, in the early days, the relationship of two different classes, most people who accept mechanical education and few people who accept intellectual education, is that latter is intrinsically higher than the former. Dewey thought the servile class, which is most people, labors for the ends which is not their ends but other commits to them. Thus, those servile class do not only for their subsistence, but also for the means which enabled the superior class to live. However, to the superior class, few people, can continue their life and enjoy the liberal education. As time goes on, as the cooperation becoming more and more detail, the segregation is becoming even more