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

8 My Pedagogic Creed.
should take up and contilue the activities with which
the child is already familiar in the home.
I believe that it should exhibit these activities to the
child, and reproduce them in such ways that the child
will gradually learn the meaning of them, and be capable of playing his own part in relation to them.
I believe that this is a psychological necessity, because
it is the only way of securing continuity in the child's
growth, the only way of giving a background of past
experience to the new ideas given in school.
I believe it is also a social necessity because the home
is the form of social life in which the child has been
nurtured and in connection with which he has had his
moral training. It is the business of the school to
deepen and extend his sense of the values bound up in
his home life.
I believe that much of present education fails because
it-neglects this fundamental principle of the school as
a form of community life. It conceives the school as
a place where certain information is to be given, where
certain lessons, are to be learned, or where certain
habits are to be formed. The value of these is conceived as lying largely in the remote future; the child
must do these things for the sake of something else he
is to do; they are mere preparations. As a result they
do not become a part of the life experience of the child
and so are not truly educative.
I believe that the moral education centers upon this
conception of the school as a mode of soyd1 life, that
the best and deepest moral training is precisgly that
which one gets through having to enter into proper re