Education is the preparation of life, and how to manage a perfect life is a major event that education should teach, which is the view of American educator Dewey.

John Dewey:

john dewey (October 2, 1859-June 1, 1952) is a famous American philosopher, educator, psychologist, a master of pragmatism and one of the founders of functionalism psychology and modern pedagogy. If Peirce, Lu Jiyan, founded a pragmatic method, william james established a pragmatic view of truth.

john dewey's achievements:

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. During his academic career, john dewey has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago and Columbia University for a long time.

and retired from lead fiber 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, Zao Yin was regarded as one of the greatest educational reformers in the 2th century. While teaching at the University of Chicago, he also founded the experimental school attached to the University of Chicago.

Dewey's character theory:

1. Education is life

Dewey believes that education is the process of children's life, not the preparation for future life. He said: life is development, and continuous development and growth is life. Therefore, the best education is "learning from life and learning from experience". Education is to provide children with conditions to ensure their growth or full life.

Because life is growth and children's development is the process of primitive instinctive growth, Dewey emphasized that "growth is the characteristic of life, so education is growth." In his view, education is not to force children to absorb external things, but to make human innate ability grow.

2. School is society

Dewey believes that since education is a process of social life, school is a form of social life. He stressed that the school should "become a small society, a rudimentary society." In school, we should simplify the real social life to a embryonic state and present the social life of children.