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Title: Moral Principles in Education

Author: John Dewey

Release Date: April 25, 2008 [EBook #25172]

Language: English

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Riverside Educational Monographs

EDITED BY HENRY SUZZALLO

SOMETIME PROFESSOR OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION TEACHERS COLLEGE,
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, AND PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

MORAL PRINCIPLES IN EDUCATION

BY

JOHN DEWEY

PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

BOSTON . NEW YORK . CHICAGO . DALLAS . SAN FRANCISCO

The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY JOHN DEWEY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The author has drawn freely upon his essay on _Ethical Principles
Underlying Education_, published in the Third Year-Book of The National
Herbart Society for the Study of Education. He is indebted to the
Society for permission to use this material.

The Riverside Press
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PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
I. THE MORAL PURPOSE OF THE SCHOOL
II. THE MORAL TRAINING GIVEN BY THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY
III. THE MORAL TRAINING FROM METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
IV. THE SOCIAL NATURE OF THE COURSE OF STUDY
V. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT OF MORAL EDUCATION
OUTLINE

INTRODUCTION

_Education as a public business_

It is one of the complaints of the schoolmaster that the public does not
defer to his professional opinion as completely as it does to that of
practitioners in other professions. At first sight it might seem as
though this indicated a defect either in the public or in the
profession; and yet a wider view of the situation would suggest that
such a conclusion is not a necessary one. The relations of education to
the public are different from those of any other professional work.
Education is a public business with us, in a sense that the protection
and restoration of personal health or le