...reproduce as far as possible the conditions to be dealt with in life. As Professor Dewey puts it, " The only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life." Manual work unquestionably presents peculiarly practical opportunities in this direction. Where the...

...aim and method of the last attempted reform in education. The school is to prepare for social life. The only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life. In another paragraph of the same article we are told that " apart from participation in social life...

...which, it would almost seem, is carefully and purposely kept away from vital contact with the child undergoing training. The only way to prepare for social...serviceableness apart from any direct social need and motive, apart from any existing social situation, is, to the letter, teaching the child to swim by going through...

...purposely kept away from vital contact with the child undergoing training. The only way to prepare for X social life is to engage in social life. To form habits...serviceableness apart from any direct social need and motive, apart from any existing social situation, is, to the letter, teaching thechild to swim bygoing through...

...the child undergoing training. The only way to_preparefor social life is to engage in social ljfej_ To form habits of social usefulness and serviceableness apart from any direct social need and motive, apart from any existing social situation, is, to the letter, teaching the child to swim by going through...

...fellows, and education through experience must take rightful account of this factor. Dr. Dewey says that "the only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life. ' ' Unless the kindergarten wishes to be left behind in the movement which was started in its name,...

...practically an intellectual habit in children for use in a social life which is, as it would almost seem, carefully and purposely kept away from any vital...life is to engage in social life. To form habits of usefulness and serviceableness apart from any direct social need and motive, and apart from any existing...

...practically an intellectual habit in children for use in a social life which is, as it would almost seem, carefully and purposely kept away from any vital...life is to engage in social life. To form habits of usefulness and serviceableness apart from any direct social need and motive, and apart from any existing...

...own benefit and that of his fellow-citizens. *7 '[The wisest of modern educators has declared that "the only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life." The rule applies to society conceived as a school no less than to the school conceived as a society....

...preparation for social life. We may sum up this view in the generous contention of the pragmatist, " that the only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life ". As regards the outer organization of a school system, we may say that since the social services...