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# Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy (Classic Reprint) Paperback – June 23, 2012

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The Real Fundamentals
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2012*

Not for the impatient.  Dewey as a writer might sometimes make us feel like kindergartners being lectured on mostly what we already know, but that's our fault, not necessarily his.  His patience in building complex concepts from the actual basics is unparallelled, but he depends on the reader to retain in mind the outlines, to sort the key ideas from the supporting arguments, and to sketch the diagrams: for better or worse, there are no math-like formulae here.  But his sense of those real basics--the respect he pays to everyday experience itself, that Cinderella stepchild of modern philosophy, is worth the effort it takes to follow him out.  On the other hand, the book does get more relevant to our understanding of both education and democracy as Dewey proceeds, so again, patience is rewarded.  Beginning students of Dewey might do better to read Education and Experience first.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Important and well written, but dry and dense
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 3, 2023*

Part of the philosophical underpinning of western pedagogy. More a work of applied philosophy than anything practical or scientific, this is part of the foundation for thinking about and approaching education. Somewhat out of date - the ideas of controlling and shaping the growth of the child have changed to nurturing and guiding. Of course, the results produced by controlling far surpassed those produced currently. However, institutional education is a bastion of ideological demagoguery that will allow no outsider to question it or expect results. This is very dry and a dense, tedious read. I was a teacher, am interested in the topic and have read plenty of philosophy as dry as this. I still had trouble getting through it. Definitely only worth reading if you are very interested in the topic.  The formatting is not great on this kindle version - the section headings in the chapters aren’t underlined and bolded as they should be and instead blend into blocks of texts. Makes reading this version more difficult. I got it for free - if the price isn’t significantly lower, you should purchase a different version instead of this.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Philosophy of Education
  

*by A***J on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 19, 2009*

Education is the key to whole development of all societies in this world.  Until we provide and give proper importance to education to the humanity we are underdeveloped.  We have to spend more money on education, ie, train required teachers not with the existing system, mofifying with all required education to the teachers first,to be included all the relevant books likes this, to be enable the teacher understand the basics (all subjects, wholeness not fragmented) of everything, psychology of the students etc.  In this respect, the book is very useful........

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