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Evaluating Dewey's Educational Thought
Dewey's educational thoughts are evaluated as follows:

1, which established the position of the educated in moral education.

Dewey believes that the most fundamental process of moral education is the process of children's inquiry. Where there is value, there should be factors of inquiry, so we think that the task of moral education is to help children find out what is right through critical inquiry, so as to help them use their inherent wisdom and ability to pursue reasonable value.

2. Affirmed the role of activities in moral development.

Dewey believes that activities are an important reason for children's psychological and moral development. Dewey believes that moral knowledge can only be realized by interacting with others. The important task of the school is how to organize various activities reasonably and cultivate children's behavior habits in the activities. Since Dewey put forward this view, it has been affecting the educational practice in the United States and even the world.

Educational reformers believe that students' activities, whether beneficial or spontaneous, are the best learning methods. Let children participate in cooperative activities is an important way to cultivate children's character, and one of the important tasks of the school is how to organize various activities reasonably.

Dewey's profile:

John dewey (1 859101October 20th ~1June 9521) is a famous American philosopher, educator, psychologist, master of pragmatism and one of the founders of functionalism psychology and modern pedagogy. If Peirce founded the pragmatic method, then william james established the pragmatic truth view.

Then, Dewey built a pragmatic theoretical building. His works cover science, art, religious ethics, politics, education, sociology, history and economics, making pragmatism a unique cultural phenomenon in the United States.

In his academic career, john dewey has long taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago and Columbia University, and retired at Columbia University. Dewey praised the democratic system all his life and emphasized the complementarity between science and democracy. Democratic thought is the theme of many of his works. At the same time, he is considered as one of the greatest educational reformers in the 20th century. ?