num_pages: 408
description: John Dewey’s best-known and still-popular classic, Democracy and Educa­tion, is presented here as a new edition in Volume 9 of the Middle Works. Sidney Hook, who wrote the introduction to this volume, describes Democracy and Education: “It illuminates directly or indirectly all the basic issues that are cen­tral today to the concerns of intelligent educators. . . . It throws light on sev­eral obscure corners in Dewey’s general philosophy in a vigorous, simple prose style often absent in his more technical writings. And it is the only work in any field originally published as a textbook that has not merely acquired the status of a classic, but has become the one book that no student concerned with the phi­losophy of education today should leave unread.” Dewey said in 1930 that De­mocracy and Education, “was for many years the one [book] in which my philos­ophy . . . was most fully expounded.”
language: English
title: Democracy and Education
titlecomplete: Democracy and Education (Middle Works of John Dewey, Vol 9, 1899-1924)
genres: Classics, Political Science, Social Science, Philosophy, Education, Sociology, Nonfiction, Academic, Teaching, Politics
ratings_count: 2034
publisher: Southern Illinois University Press