Dewey

Dewey John Dewey Reaction Paper “The correlate in thinking of facts, data, knowledge, already acquired, is suggestions, inferences, conjectured meanings, suppositions, tentative explanations:--ideas, in short.” --John Dewey Out of the authors that I have read this year, Alfred North Whitehead and John Dewey are the two that I have found the greatest commonality with in the subject of obtaining and gaining information. Whitehead speaks on education relating back to Life. It seems to be the only way to become a person that can understand the world around him/her is to be a person who learned using life as the main force in education. “There is a proverb about the difficulty of seeing the wood because of the tress…The problem of education is to make the pupil see the wood by means of the trees.” I think that he and I touch base with the idea of life being the driving force in education. Whitehead continues with distaste for formulated subjects and views Life as the only subject matter for education. Dewey seems to feel as though life should be the main subject matter for education. Dewey expresses an interest very similar to Whiteheads in the three stages in which education travels. Whitehead felt that education, dewey, whitehead, problem, life, ideas, being, subject, pupil, information, situation, matter, make, idea, year, wood, way, understand, uncovered, though, thinking, think, students, size, seems, proof, process, problems, possible, person, own, needed, main, lie, left, knowledge, john, inert, hypothesis, human, genuine, formulate, force, first, expresses, covered, continues, class, another, ideas