Theory of Experience

When I was reading "The new of a Theory of Experience" I remembered the video we watch about the Free School in New York. I think this theory makes a very important argument on why experience cannot be taken as the only resource for education. Experience can be good or bad, not in the experience itself, but how this experience affects future possible experiences for learning. Dewey also makes an important clarification on the ideas of "growth." He gives the example of a burglar, who can grow as such, and then become a highly expert burglar. I think with this idea his pointing out soemthing very significant in education, which is, what students learn, what is it that is taught. Also, he metnions how important it is the intervention of the teacher as the more mature person able to guide the student in the right direction.

The educator must be able to judge what attitudes are actually conductive to continued growth and what are detrimental. He must, in addition, have that sympathetic understanding of individuals as individuals which gives him an idea of what is actually going on in the minds of those who are learning