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

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symmetrical form of personal development. Sociology
consequently joins with pedagogy in the aim to bring
persons, whether in school or out of school, into as direct
contact as possible with the concrete conditions in which
all the functions of personality must be applied and controlled. In these conditions alone is that balanced
action possible which is the desideratum alike of pedagogical and of social culture.
Once more the Committee of Ten was content to remain in the dismal shadows of the immemorial misconception that disjecta membra of representative knowledge
are the sole available resource for educational develop-'
ment. I do not find among the fundamental concepts
of the report any distinct recognition of the coherence
of the things with which intelligent pedagogy aims to
procure personal adaptation. The report presents a
classified catalogue of subjects good for study, but there
is no apparent conception of the cosmos of which these
subjects are abstracted phases and elements. Nowhere
in the report do I find recognition that education, when
it is finished, is conscious conformity of individuals to
the coherent cosmic reality of which they are parts.
Until our pedagogy rests upon a more intelligent cosmic
philosophy, and especially upon a more complete synthesis of social philosophy, we can hardly expect curricula
to correspond with the essential conditions to which
human action must learn to conform. A graduate of a
leading Eastern university, who is now making an impression upon American pedagogy, said recently that
when he took his diploma, about ten years ago, history
to his mind was a collection of material which he had