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<blockquote data-quote="Pokinfun" data-source="post: 2985643" data-attributes="member: 28113"><p>just that your grandkid has to attend some sort of school, even if it is home school, religious, or private. John Dewey was a central figure in the reasons for a public education system in the US. Dewey was a pragmatist, that believed "Democracy and the one, ultimate, ethical ideal of humanity are to my mind synonymous."<u>[</u> He thought that for democracy to occur it had to be practiced, discussed, and agreed upon to have a civil society. Dewey also believed that we could not have a democracy and a civil society without its citizens having an education, which taught government and communication. However, Dewey also believed that education and learning are social and interactive processes, not just memorizing facts or doing math. Therefore, students learn how to "think" not just what to think. The only way our nation grows is to have an educated society that understands government and thinks about how to reform it into something better.</p><p>I guess the problem is lots of folks believe education is merely teaching facts, when our education system was never designed to merely teach facts.</p><p>When I teach, I do a questioning process to find out what students already knows about a topic and what they want to learn. I then use the information they already know as a jumping off point for our unit. As we move along the road to achieving the mandated goal, we learn the vocabulary and facts we need to know, so we can have open ended discussions, debates, presentations, and sometimes arguments about the topic, using real facts and ideas that can be backed up by quoting or citing events or people, I normally play the pessimist.</p><p>every year I will have at least one parent that will get super upset about something their child has told them we had talked about in class.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pokinfun, post: 2985643, member: 28113"] just that your grandkid has to attend some sort of school, even if it is home school, religious, or private. John Dewey was a central figure in the reasons for a public education system in the US. Dewey was a pragmatist, that believed "Democracy and the one, ultimate, ethical ideal of humanity are to my mind synonymous."[U][[/U] He thought that for democracy to occur it had to be practiced, discussed, and agreed upon to have a civil society. Dewey also believed that we could not have a democracy and a civil society without its citizens having an education, which taught government and communication. However, Dewey also believed that education and learning are social and interactive processes, not just memorizing facts or doing math. Therefore, students learn how to "think" not just what to think. The only way our nation grows is to have an educated society that understands government and thinks about how to reform it into something better. I guess the problem is lots of folks believe education is merely teaching facts, when our education system was never designed to merely teach facts. When I teach, I do a questioning process to find out what students already knows about a topic and what they want to learn. I then use the information they already know as a jumping off point for our unit. As we move along the road to achieving the mandated goal, we learn the vocabulary and facts we need to know, so we can have open ended discussions, debates, presentations, and sometimes arguments about the topic, using real facts and ideas that can be backed up by quoting or citing events or people, I normally play the pessimist. every year I will have at least one parent that will get super upset about something their child has told them we had talked about in class. [/QUOTE]
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