#Morxuesen’s Picture Card Study Notes

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In your opinion, what is the purpose of education?

"The purpose of education is to allow children to realize their parents' ideals." The educational purposes of some parents in the book "Why Family Hurts People" are such that children's ideas and interests are ignored, resulting in All kinds of psychological problems in children.

?What did Dewey think about the purpose of education?

Dewey starts from the essence of education and discusses the purpose of education in this way

1. Education should promote the inner growth of people

This is what Dewey calls education. Growth is teleological. The purposelessness here does not mean that there is no purpose, but that there is no external purpose. The purpose of education is intrinsic, respecting children, and taking children's growth as the purpose of education.

2. Education must adapt to children’s current lives

3. Education must serve the development of democratic society and the construction of democratic systems

Education does not mean that it only cares about itself. Development, no matter what society is like. Education has a social purpose, and personal development and social progress are unified.

Reflects life, timeliness, immanence and democracy

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Major European and American educational thinkersgt; American educator Dewey in the 19th and 20th centuries