But justification is found in the fact that such emphasis is a means of getting us away from an unduly scholastic and formal notion of education. Schools are one important method of the transmission. There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication. As the relations of parent and child, teacher and pupil, employer and employee, remain upon this level, they form no true social group, no matter how closely their respective activities touch one another. Giving and taking of orders modifies action and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.
All communication is educative.
To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated. Formulating requires getting outside of it, seeing it as another would see it. All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared, is educative to those who participate in it.