1. Please print out the readings from Experience and Education and bring the print outs to the session
You might reflect upon or sketch out some answers to these questions ahead of the Friday workshop
in Philosophy.
Questions:
1. What alternative does Dewey suggest to the main aim of traditional education, namely to
prepare the young for future responsibilities? (Chapter 1)
2. How does Dewey separate educative from mis-educative experience? (Chapter 2)
3. What is meant by saying that every experience widens ‘the external conditions of subsequent
learning’? (Chapter 3)