“Education is life itself.”

John Dewey today, would be thought of as a prehistoric educational theorist. His idea of education was to have the teacher have 100% of the control of the classroom. You would learn from the textbooks and listen to the lectures, and be able to prove that you “learned” the information by either oral relay or written form. Although at 1^st, he seems to be quite harsh, he did believe that the curriculum should be based on student interests, and that the curriculum should be in an integrated-type setting, so that subjects are intertwined, rather than split completely… just like life. 

Although these ideas are being tried in some areas of the country today, the thought was there in the late 1800s! He is being thought of as “the father of education.” He seems to have laid the first stone in experiential  learning.

I decided to research Dewey because I didn't like the things that I first read about him, and wanted to dig deeper. He gave off a bad first impression, but after reading into him, he really did have a genius concept that students would benefit from if they were in place across the country today.

“Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”