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About This Book
A collection of essays analyzes the persistent tension between a child's narrow, integrated world of personal interests and the abstract, historically accumulated structure of school subjects. It argues that education must be understood as the interaction between an immature learner and social aims, not as the dominance of either side. The author critiques methods that fragment experience into isolated lessons or that dismiss subject-matter in favor of undirected activity, and proposes reconstructing curriculum so that studies grow from and connect with learners' interests, promote continuity of experience, and develop intellectual habits suited to social living.