"The older type of instruction tended to treat the teacher as a dictatorial ruler. The newer type sometimes treats the teacher as a negligible factor, almost as an evil, though a necessary one. In reality, the teacher is the intellectual leader of a social group, He is a leader, not in virtue of official position, but because of wider and deeper knowledge and matured experience. The supposition that the teacher must abdicate his leadership is merely silly." -- How We Think, 1910
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Dewey
Well, great ideas are enduring, aren't they? He could have written this today.True enough. Makes me want to
True enough. Makes me want to wade through Democracy and Education.Post new comment