美国杰出哲学家和教育家杜威的代表作《民主主义与教育》,是一部堪与柏拉图的《理想国》、卢梭的《爱弥儿》相提并论的经典作品。该书有一句著名的论断“教育即生长”:“因为生长是生活的特征,所以教育就是不断生长;在它自身以外,没有别的目的。学校教育的价值,它的标准,就看它创造继续生长的愿望到什么程度, Dewey, a distinguished American philosopher and educator, is the representative of ”Democracy and Education“ and is a classic comparable to Plato’s ”ideal nation“ and Rousseau’s ”Emile“. The book has a well-known assertion that ”education is growth“: ”Because growth is a characteristic of life, education is constantly growing; there is no other purpose than its own. The value of school education, its standards, To see to what extent it wishes to create the continued growth,