...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...

...with new understandings about the process of learning. Laila Hasan embraced the Deweyan principle that "the only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life."3 The project's parent institutes modeled constructivist classrooms, involving parents in activities...

...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...prepare for social life is to engage in social life ". Schools which make training in good citizenship their central aim are often most exclusive in their...

...education reproduces within the school the typical conditions of social life to be encountered without. "The only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life" (p. 15). Moreover, this sort of moral education is possible only when the school itself becomes an...

...each child playing his part as a citizen of this diminutive commonwealth. Dr. Dewey has wisely said: "The only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life." The wise teacher, then, will give ample opportunity for each child to live and act socially, thus growing...

...theoretically but actually. He would have the school train children for life's many social relationships. "The only way to prepare for social life is to' engage in social life," and he believes that "the school itself must be a vital social institution to a much greater extent...

..."Apart from participation in social life, the school has no moral end nor aim." On page 14, he remarks, "The only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life." And finally, on page 58, he asserts, "Moral principles — are inherent in community life and in the...

...and decision-making, how to be a citizen, and many other skills they take with them into adulthood. "The only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life" (Dewey 1909/1975, p. 14). As Dewey argues, the school should be constructed as a social institution...

...theory of education with approval when he wrote, "The wisest of modern educators has declared that 'the only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life.' " The theory of human nature based on the hypothesis that character was created by social participation,...