杜威是20世纪最后一个伟大的经典式教育家。大概因为很多人对教育发生了兴趣,并对它有了一些认识,看来这位大人物、预言家在教育界不再有任何席位了,这并不是说我们永远不会发现预言家了,也不会再有热心吹嘘的灵丹妙药了。但是灵丹妙药不能持久地为人们所承认,而且被人们所接受的那些理论也决不是具有普遍的意义。教育上的一些难题依然存在,鉴于现代生活的纷繁复杂,总的说来,这些难题也是大教育家们经常考虑的问题。我们的时代是个自相矛盾的时代;人们越来越确信个体的重要性,但个体生活于其中的社会的重要性也日益明显。尽管许多 Dewey was the last great classical educator of the 20th century. Probably because many people are interested in education and have some knowledge about it, it seems that the big man, the prophet no longer has any seats in the education sector, this does not mean that we will never find the prophet, and also There will be no more miraculous boast. But the panacea can not be enduringly acknowledged by people, and the accepted theories are by no means universal. Some difficult problems in education still exist. In view of the complexity of modern life, these problems are generally considered by educators altogether. Our time is an era of self-contradiction; people are more and more convinced of the importance of the individual, but the importance of the society in which the individual lives is increasingly evident. Although many