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Democracy and Education

Name: Democracy and Education
Author: John Dewey

by John Dewey (1859–1952)

26 chapters, about 130,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life 3,500 words
Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function 5,100 words
Chapter Three: Education as Direction 7,100 words
Chapter Four: Education as Growth 4,700 words
Chapter Five: Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline 5,800 words
Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive 4,300 words
Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education 7,300 words
Chapter Eight: Aims in Education 4,500 words
Chapter Nine: Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims 5,000 words
Chapter Ten: Interest and Discipline 5,100 words
Chapter Eleven: Experience and Thinking 4,700 words
Chapter Twelve: Thinking in Education 4,600 words
Chapter Thirteen: The Nature of Method 5,700 words
Chapter Fourteen: The Nature of Subject Matter 5,100 words
Chapter Fifteen: Play and Work in the Curriculum 4,700 words
Chapter Sixteen: The Significance of Geography and History 4,400 words
Chapter Seventeen: Science in the Course of Study 4,600 words
Chapter Eighteen: Educational Values 7,400 words
Chapter Nineteen: Labor and Leisure 4,300 words
Chapter Twenty: Intellectual and Practical Studies 5,000 words
Chapter Twenty-one: Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism 4,400 words
Chapter Twenty-two: The Individual and the World 5,200 words
Chapter Twenty-Three: Vocational Aspects of Education 4,200 words
Chapter Twenty-four: Philosophy of Education 4,100 words
Chapter Twenty-five: Theories of Knowledge 4,000 words
Chapter Twenty-six: Theories of Morals 5,300 words

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