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Democracy and Education By John Dewey

Democracy and Education

By John Dewey

  • Release Date: 2018-03-10
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
  • $1.99

Description

Dewey sought to at once synthesize, criticize, and expand upon the democratic (or proto-democratic) educational philosophies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Plato. He saw Rousseau's philosophy as overemphasizing the individual and Plato's philosophy as overemphasizing the society in which the individual lived.