Moral Principles In Education — John Dewey

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 legal rights are not To an extent characteristic of no other institution save that of the state itself the school has power to modify the social order And under our political system it is the right of each individual to have a voice in the making of social policies as indeed he has a vote in the determination of political affairs If this be true education is primarily a public business and onl secondarily a specialized vocation The layman then will always have his right to some utterance on the operation of the public schools

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 legal rights are not To an extent characteristic of no other institution save that of the state itself the school has power to modify the social order And under our political system it is the right of each individual to have a voice in the making of social policies as indeed he has a vote in the determination of political affairs If this be true education is primarily a public business and onl secondarily a specialized vocation The layman then will always have his right to some utterance on the operation of the public schools

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 legal rights are not To an extent characteristic of no other institution save that of the state itself the school has power to modify the social order And under our political system it is the right of each individual to have a voice in the making of social policies as indeed he has a vote in the determination of political affairs If this be true education is primarily a public business and onl secondarily a specialized vocation The layman then will always have his right to some utterance on the operation of the public schools

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 legal rights are not To an extent characteristic of no other institution save that of the state itself the school has power to modify the social order And under our political system it is the right of each individual to have a voice in the making of social policies as indeed he has a vote in the determination of political affairs If this be true education is primarily a public business and onl secondarily a specialized vocation The layman then will always have his right to some utterance on the operation of the public schools img src https s3 eu west 1 amazonaws com dia kitadagitim ckeditor_assets pictures 53 content_1_original_original jpg alt height 15 width 15 font size 1 color white font img