My pedagogic creed, by Prof. John Dewey; also, The demands of sociology upon pedagogy, by Prof. Albion W. Small.

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cept, example, or exhortation, but rather by the influence of a certain form of institutional or community
life -upon the individual, and that the social organism
through -the schooI, asits organ, may determine ethicai
results.
I believe that in the ideal- schoolwe havt - b th- econciliation of the individualistic and.the institutional
ideals.
I believe that the community's duty to education is,
therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can
regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and
chance way. But through education society can formu-.
late its own purposes, can organize its own means and
resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and
economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.
I believe that when society once recognizes the possibilities in this direction, and the obligations which these
possibilities impose, it is impossible to conceive of the
resources of time, attention, and money which will bel
put at the disposal of the educator.
I believe it is the business of every one interested in
education to insist upon the school as the primary and
most effective interest of social progress and reform in
order that society may be awakened to realize what the
school stands for, and aroused to the necessity of endowing the educator with sufficient equipment properly
io perform his task.
I believe that education thus conceived marks the
nost perfect and intimate union of science and art conbeivable in human experience,