John Dewey
John Dewey (1859-1952) was a philosopher of education who advocated instrumentalism and is generally considered the father of Progressivism in education. He sought the reconstruction of society through education in which children learned for themselves from the environment rather than from teachers.
Dewey and religion
In his work and throughout his career, Dewey mostly ignored the topic of religion. Important exceptions include his 1892 address "Christianity and Democracy" given to the University of Michigan Students' Christian Association and his 1933 Terry Lectures at Yale University—the basis of his 1934 book A Common Faith. In A Common Faith Dewey attempted to somehow separate the experience of the "religious" from the supernatural aspects of "God" and "religion". [1].
Quotes
- "education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself,"
- "education consists primarily of transmission through communication,"
- "education is a constant reorganizing or reconstructing of experience."
External Links
- ↑ Reinhold Niebuhr and John Dewey: An American Odyssey, Daniel F. Rice, 1993, State University of New York Press, ISBN 0-7914-1345-4, pages 43-58 (these pages are Chapter 5 titled "A Common Faih")