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Dewey mentioned three educational functions in the third chapter of Democracy and Education:direction, control, and guidance.Functions, to a great extent, stems from purpose and serves for purpose.This paper gives an insight on the purpose and aims of modern education from the perspectives of its three functions that Dewey brought up.In addition to the elaboration of the aims of education, this paper also discusses some major mistakes that educators tend to make in their understanding of educational aims.