John Dewey Education Essay

American philosopher John Dewey’s statement is mostly agreeable to me, when he stated ‘Education is a social process’ I couldn’t agree more, because learning is part of human nature, people learn things each day both consciously and unconsciously. The way our society works today is all about social interactions, learning about one another to establish social relationships. People are always learning new things, whether it’s learning something new about your friend or learning how to solve a problem. Humans are curious creatures, we fear the unknown, our greatest strength is also our biggest weakness, we’re always trying to learn and discover things that we don’t know, its just how humans are. We are always looking for ways to innovate and

This proves Dewey’s second statement, ‘education is growth’, learning is growing and its not just about knowing more but also leaning to be a better person, to improve yourself and the people around you.

Education isn’t just the thing you learn in class, like math or science; learning can take place anywhere you want it to, as long as you are willing to learn. The knowledge you gain in a classroom means nothing if you don’t apply it to yourself and the outside world, to go out there and contribute to your community and try to be a better person, not for anyone else but you

Throughout my years in high school, my teachers always told me that education in school is preparing us for society and the outside world; I think this is really misleading, from my understanding of the statement is that they are saying that if students learn the things that are taught to them in school, they’ll do fine in society. I personally think that is not true at all, because there are certain things that you can’t learn in a classroom, like how to deal with people and different situations that you can only learn through experience and being apart of the society. Education is not preparing you to be an adult; education is a lifelong process and learning to deal with different situations, knowledge is not just for your brain to store but for you to apply to yourself and your life altogether.

The main point I think John Dewey is lacking from is statement is the academic and scholastic aspect of learning, his statement was mostly about the knowledge learned through society and life, but some students these days are lacking the motivation just to stay in high school, they either don’t see the point in education or had no interest in what they were learning, students can become ‘lost’ and lose the sense of direction in life, failing to determine what they truly want to do and harder to find a career that is right