1, education is life

In Dewey's view, people's life should be varied, including children's life, adult life, school life, family life and social life. Dewey put forward "education is life" mainly to overcome the gap between school life and family society, so that schools can regulate and restrain children's behavior without adult activity mode.

In his view, the school is a special environment, which can not only reflect the basic characteristics of social life, but also absorb healthy social life factors, thus making the school a typical, pure and ideal small society, and children can be edified in this good and pure healthy environment and become sound personalities.

2. Education is growth.

Dewey thought that the school at that time suppressed children's nature and ignored its development. In his works, he described that "children are placed in a passive, accepting or absorbing state" and "the result is resistance and waste". He put forward that the fundamental purpose of "education is growth" is to liberate children from passive repression.

He believes that children are born with four instincts: social impulse; The instinct to make; Interest in exploring and discovering things; Dewey, the instinct of art, said: "These four interests are natural resources and uninvested capital. The lively growth of children depends on the utilization of these natural resources.

3. Education is the transformation of experience.

Dewey explained the word "experience" in his works: experience is the interaction between organism and environment. Experience follows two principles: interaction principle and continuity principle. Dewey believes that education is a process of continuous reorganization and transformation of experience.

Introduction to Dewey:

Dewey's thoughts had a great influence on China's education and ideological circles in the early 20th century. He also visited China, witnessed the May 4th Movement, met with Sun Yat-sen, and trained a number of masters and scholars of Chinese studies such as Hu Shi, Feng Youlan, Tao Xingzhi, Guo Bingwen, Zhang Boling and Jiang Menglin.

Dewey is one of the most famous American scholars in the first half of the 20th century. In February, 2006, the Atlantic Monthly, a well-known American magazine, ranked Dewey 40th among the "100 people who influenced America".

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