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Question 1
Dewey’s core argument for education stems from the definition of democracy and the requirement of educated people in order to have a successful democracy. Dewey notes that if we were to limit the educated to a select few we would cause a segregation between the highly educated and the commoners that would lead to the educated taking control. This would bring America right back to where it started, a group of people ruled by an “external authority” (Dewey). Therefore, a strong institution of education is necessary to ensure that all citizens have at least the most basic of knowledge in order to pick out proper representatives. There is another aspect of education that Dewey also considered to be very important, education is a “mode of associated living, or conjunct, communicated experience” (Dewey). Educational institutions are one of the cultural institutions set up to imbue children with the social and cultural norms, values, symbols, and mental maps of reality (Guest, 2014, pp. 36). The other job of education is to teach children how to be Americans and to prepare them for what life will be like outside of school. Thus, Dewey’s two reasons for education are to ensure that citizens can elect the …show more content…
However, aristocrats afraid of losing their power or people afraid of the class/caste system falling apart were quick to point out that education might lead to the poor rising up against the aristocrats (Urban & Wagoner, 2009, pp. 120-123). Educators, luckily, had a way around this. While education might be afforded to all, it would be done in a way through which individuals would be pushed to the top and focused on whereas the rest would be left to be easily manipulated under the pretense of receiving an
Question 1
Dewey’s core argument for education stems from the definition of democracy and the requirement of educated people in order to have a successful democracy. Dewey notes that if we were to limit the educated to a select few we would cause a segregation between the highly educated and the commoners that would lead to the educated taking control. This would bring America right back to where it started, a group of people ruled by an “external authority” (Dewey). Therefore, a strong institution of education is necessary to ensure that all citizens have at least the most basic of knowledge in order to pick out proper representatives. There is another aspect of education that Dewey also considered to be very important, education is a “mode of associated living, or conjunct, communicated experience” (Dewey). Educational institutions are one of the cultural institutions set up to imbue children with the social and cultural norms, values, symbols, and mental maps of reality (Guest, 2014, pp. 36). The other job of education is to teach children how to be Americans and to prepare them for what life will be like outside of school. Thus, Dewey’s two reasons for education are to ensure that citizens can elect the …show more content…
However, aristocrats afraid of losing their power or people afraid of the class/caste system falling apart were quick to point out that education might lead to the poor rising up against the aristocrats (Urban & Wagoner, 2009, pp. 120-123). Educators, luckily, had a way around this. While education might be afforded to all, it would be done in a way through which individuals would be pushed to the top and focused on whereas the rest would be left to be easily manipulated under the pretense of receiving an