
Ep. 249: Dewey on Education and Thought (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Social Environment
The social environment, within chapter two, other people are the indispensable conditions of the realization of a person's tendencies. What he says specifically is that it's about a shared goal. If i'm just aping what you're doing, i'm not learning. But if i'm understanding that we're sharing in that activity and that there's an outcome that i'm trying to achieve, then it becomes education or learning. And so for instance, getting at your idea of a project, seth, when the project s, they'll feel it as their own failure. And when it succeeds, they will feel it astheir own success. That sort of investment is different from just getting your hand
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