My Pedagogic Creed--我的教育信条.pdf

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1、MyPedagogicCreedbyJohnDeweyJohnDewey'sfamousdeclarationconcerningeducation.FirstpublishedinTheSchoolJournal,VolumeLIV,Number3(January16,1897),pages77-80.ARTICLEI--WhatEducationIsIbelievethatalleducationproceedsbytheparticipationoftheindividualinthesocialconsciousnessoftherace.Thisprocessbeginsunco

2、nsciouslyalmostatbirth,andiscontinuallyshapingtheindividual'spowers,saturatinghisconsciousness,forminghishabits,traininghisideas,andarousinghisfeelingsandemotions.Throughthisunconsciouseducationtheindividualgraduallycomestoshareintheintellectualandmoralresourceswhichhumanityhassucceededingettingto

3、gether.Hebecomesaninheritorofthefundedcapitalofcivilization.Themostformalandtechnicaleducationintheworldcannotsafelydepartfromthisgeneralprocess.Itcanonlyorganizeitordifferentiateitinsomeparticulardirection.Ibelievethattheonlytrueeducationcomesthroughthestimulationofthechild'spowersbythedemandsoft

4、hesocialsituationsinwhichhefindshimself.Throughthesedemandsheisstimulatedtoactasamemberofaunity,toemergefromhisoriginalnarrownessofactionandfeeling,andtoconceiveofhimselffromthestandpointofthewelfareofthegrouptowhichhebelongs.Throughtheresponseswhichothersmaketohisownactivitieshecomestoknowwhatthe

5、semeaninsocialterms.Thevaluewhichtheyhaveisreflectedbackintothem.Forinstance,throughtheresponsewhichismadetothechild'sinstinctivebabblingsthechildcomestoknowwhatthosebabblingsmean;theyaretransformedintoarticulatelanguageandthusthechildisintroducedintotheconsolidatedwealthofideasandemotionswhichare

6、nowsummedupinlanguage.Ibelievethatthiseducationalprocesshastwosides-onepsychologicalandonesociological;andthatneithercanbesubordinatedtotheotherorneglectedwithoutevilresultsfollowing.Ofthesetwosides,thepsychologicalisthebasis.Thechild'sowninstinctsandpowersfurnishthematerialandgivethestartingpoint

7、foralleducation.Saveastheeffortsoftheeducatorconnectwithsomeactivitywhichthechildiscarryingonofhisowninitiativeindependentoftheeducator,educationbecomesreducedtoapressurefromwithout.Itmay,indeed,givecertainextern