Thinking In Education John Dewey Analysis

In modern society, education has cultivated into a memorizing game in order to pass a grade level rather than actually learning the material necessary for students to use in real life situations. In the article “Thinking in Education”, John Dewey has developed a learning method where students gathering different facts to expand their previous knowledge; Dewey proposes that students who have a hard time answering a question is due to the lack of experience they have around the topic of the question. Furthermore, according to Dewey philosophy, I agree with a majority of his statements, however, there are some ideas Dewey proposes in which I can’t agree on. Throughout my years in school, I have come into a realization that school has become

Avid and Calculus has cultivated a big part of my preparation for college. Avid has inflicted my work in school to become easier by taking Cornell notes and later on reviewing day by day to understand the information given. Avid has helped me in college by preparing for exams and by reviewing my notes at least one time a day, it has increased my knowledge over the material which leads to better scores. My knowledge in Calculus has expanded greatly in the past semester due to the Calculus class I had taken in high school, which now is moreover, like a review for me. My experience in high school Calculus can be tied into one of Dewey concepts which is that the more knowledge someone gathers into something the more experience is learned , which makes the problem simpler. In the selection Dewey states “the perplexing situation which have already been dealt either, so that pupils will have some control go the means of handling it”. Dewey establishes the concept that the experience that was already gaining from something; finding other solutions around that experience makes the problem able to be solved easier due to the knowledge gained from that

Dewey also proposes a key statement in his article that teachers just give students the information, rather than having teachers develop problem solving skills and the child learning from that. In some cases, students were just presented the information rather than having problem solving skills and were still able to learn the material. Moreover, in my years of school there were times I didn’t have a good teacher, but I was still able to learn the information. The teacher just presented the information, but myself next to other students worked together and used each other’s thinking skills to learn the material the teacher wasn’t able to teach thoroughly. Furthermore, I can disagree with Dewey statement where without an open problem solving skill, the students aren’t able to