Dewey: philosophy as the general theory of education

Dewey sees education as the dynamic and continuous development of democratic life, what he called ‘reconstruction’, and rightly believed that society cannot transform itself without paying scrupulous attention to pedagogy. Dewey saw learning as more important than knowing and defined philosophy as ‘the general theory of education’. He set his influential views on education to work at the newly established University of Chicago after 1894 and later at Columbia University in New York.

Saved 9 April 2015

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