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Dq 7.3

Dq 7.3

Q Read John Dewey's "Democracy and Education" (excerpt). Summarize the contents of the chapter in 300 words. Be as exhaustive as possible. Define all key technical terms. End by providing an example of your own that illuminates the central concern of the chapter.

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In the particular excerpt present, John Dewey lays out in detail the contours of a democratic set-up. He argues that if democracy is strictly seen in a mechanistic sense of a political arrangement, it would just appear to be a system “of making laws and carrying on governmental administration by means of popular suffrage and elected officers”. While this is true, democracy is certainly broader and deeper than that. For Dewey, Democracy is not an end but means towards realizing ends which lie in the domain of human relationships and is pertinent for the development of human personality.