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

My Peda<gogic Creed. 7
ARTICLE II. WHAT THE SCHOOL IS.
I believe that the school is priarily al institution. Education being a social process, the school is
slmp y that form of community life in which all those
agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in
bngipthe chid to share in the inherited reQ1. f
the race, and to use his own poxF~s
belieiv, that education therefore is a rocess of
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livingand not a preparation for future living.
I believe that the school must represent present life
— life as real and vital to the child as that which he
carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the
playground.
i believe that education which does not occur through
forms of life, forms that are worth living for their own
sake, is always a poor substitute for the genuine reality,
and tends to cramp and to deaden.
I believe that the school, as an institution, should.
simplify existing social life; should reduce it., as it were,
to an embryonic form. Existing life is so complex that
the child cannot be brought into contact with it without either confusion or distraction; he is either overwhelmed by the multiplicity of activities which are
going on, so that he loses his own power of orderly
reaction, or he is so stimulated by these various activities that his powers are prematurely called into play
and he becomes either unduly specialized or else disintegrated.
I believe that, as such simplified social life, the school
life ~hould grow gradually ou of the home life; that it