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

My Pedagogic Creed. 9
Tations with others in a unity of work and thought. The
present educational systems, so far as they destroy or
neglect this unity, render it difficult or impossible to
get any genuine, regular moral training.
I believe that the child should be stimulated and
controlled in his work through the life of the community.
I believe that under existing conditions far too much
of the stimulus and control proceeds from the teacher,
because of neglect of the idea of the school as. a form
of social life.
I believe that the teacher's place and work in the
school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The
teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or
to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a
member of the community to select the influences which
shall affect the child and to assist him in Droeerlv reo'ding to these inflnces.
I believe that the discipline of the school should
proceed from the life of the school as a whole and not
directly from the teacher.
I believe that the teacher's business is simply to determine, on the basis of larger experience and riper
wisdom, how the discipline of life shall come to the
child.
IT believe that all questions of the grading of the child
and his promotion should be determined by reference
to the same standard. Examinations are of use only so
far as they test the child's fitness for social life and reveal the place in which he can be of the most service
and where he can receive the most help.