TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dewey,John
AU  - Ratner,Joseph
TI  - Education today
SN  - 0837125502
AV  - LB875.D4 A38
U1  - 370.8 
PY  - 1940///]
CY  - New York
PB  - G.P. Putnam's Sons
KW  - Education
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes index; "What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon it destroys our democracy.--John Dewey."; My pedagogic creed -- The primary-education fetich -- The people and the schools -- The place of manual training in the elementary course of study -- Democracy in education -- Religion and our schools -- Our educational ideal in wartime -- Universal service as education -- The schools and social preparedness -- American education and culture -- Nationalizing education -- Experiment in education -- Learning to earn -- Public education on trial -- Education and social direction -- Education as religion -- Education as engineering -- Education as politics -- Mediocrity and individuality -- Individuality, equality and superiority -- Culture and professionalism in education -- The prospects of the liberal college -- The liberal college and its enemies -- The direction of education -- General principles of educational articulation -- How much freedom in new schools? -- The duties and responsibilities of the teaching profession -- Monastery, bargain counter or laboratory in education? -- Political interference in higher education and research -- Education and our present social problems -- The economic situation: a challenge to education -- Why have progressive schools? -- The supreme intellectual obligation -- The need for a philosophy of education -- The teacher and his world -- The teacher and the public -- Youth in a confused world -- Toward a national system of education -- Liberty and social control -- The social significance of academic freedom -- Class struggle and the democratic way -- Rationality in education -- Democracy and educational administration -- Education and social change -- Democracy and education in the world of today
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