Dewey, John

American philosopher and educational theorist

(Archive rare) (Vidéo) [ENG] John Dewey - Allocution : "The world of the future"

Artesquieu · May 4, 2021 · partial coverage

• John Dewey
• education
• future
• change
• progressive education
• address

Coverage note: full (a single sentence of about twenty seconds; YouTube auto-generated captions)

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Educating for a world that does not exist yet. In this very short address, Dewey says the world is moving at a tremendous rate and that nobody knows where it is heading. From this he draws a principle for education: children must be prepared not for the world of the past, nor even for our own world, but for their world, the world of the future. The extract is a compact statement of his view that schooling should equip people to face change rather than reproduce what already exists.

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