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On "Purpose of Education" by Dewey

Fenghuan Hu

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There has always been a dispute about the works of Dewey, especially about his protest against the purpose. The paper studies Dewey's having no purpose of education and points out Dewey's term meaning: there is no end in education; the term itself, has no purpose; there is no external purpose of education. As to his statement having purpose of education, it means that educational action has purpose and there exists purpose during process.

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There has always been a dispute about the works of Dewey, especially about his protest against the purpose. The paper studies Dewey's having no purpose of education and points out Dewey's term meaning: there is no end in education; the term itself, has no purpose; there is no external purpose of education. As to his statement having purpose of education, it means that educational action has purpose and there exists purpose during process.

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There has always been a dispute about the works of Dewey, especially about his protest against the purpose. The paper studies Dewey's having no purpose of education and points out Dewey's term meaning: there is no end in education; the term itself, has no purpose; there is no external purpose of education. As to his statement having purpose of education, it means that educational action has purpose and there exists purpose during process.

Key concepts: Meaning (existential), Action (physics), Term (time), Statement (logic), Pedagogy, Epistemology, Sociology, Process (computing)

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