EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

Experience and Educationis the best concise statement on education ever publishe
d by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist
of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Edu
cation(Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philo
sophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of h
is intervening experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the c
riticisms his theories had received. Analysing both "traditional" and "progressi
ve" education, Dr.