So.. I just got home from work and I kept thinking about Dewey all day. Especially article two in his pedagogic creed, what the school is. Thinking of school as representing present life, life as real and vital to the child. This stuck out to me and kept rolling around in my head. It made me wonder that perhaps the reason why some children are unsuccessful in school is that school isnt real and vital to them. It does not represent their present life or teach them how to live in their environment outside of school and does little to teach them how to live "community life"
Dewey states that "I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living" How different this is from our current stressing of school and the education system. We tell children they have to suceed well in school in order to have a "good" future (which is true in a sense) yet is it the case that we rush them through with such a strong emphasis on the future that we forget to help them live out the present?
Although as it was stated in other posts U.S. school system was modeled after Dewey theory I don't believe that the current public school system really follows this model. How can school be changed to represent life without a complete overhaul?
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