In Democracy and Education John Dewey wrote, "If we are willing to conceive education as the process of forming fundamental dispositions, intellectual and emotional, toward nature and our fellow men, philosophy may even be defined as the general theory of education."
If
we assume Dewey's interpretation is correct, therefore, any
comprehensive educational model needs to consider addressing the
following questions:
- What is the reality of human beings and the nature of the child?
- What is the ideal state of being toward which education should be directed?
- What is the nature of the ideal world we are trying to build?
- What are the components of a curriculum theory that would develop from the answers to Questions 1, 2, and 3?
