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William Molnar
WEEK 8: THEMES
BY
WILLIAM MOLNAR
7. If one is accorded all the rights and privileges which are due him in strict justice, he is free
10. Moral freedom: liberty under the direction and discipline of the moral virtues
11. Free is the lack of tyranny and vice allowing us to use our free will properly
12. Free is a good education, an education for freedom only when freedom is properly understood as a
function of rights and duties both founded upon justice.
13. Free is living under a just government; justice is the root of political, moral, and economic
freedom
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3. Individual freedom is the right to be governed as an equal, not only as the equal of other men who
are his fellow citizens, but also, as the equal of those among his fellow citizens who exercise the
authority and power of governing.
4. Individual freedom consists of duties; he must be unrestrained from doing what he ought to do and
he must not be coerced into doing what he ought not to do
5. If man lives under a just government that is politically free, they have individual freedom
7. Moral and economic freedom brings out individual freedom and society
1. Education for freedom must be dissociated from that false liberalism which makes a travesty of
liberal education
2. Liberal education is education for freedom only in so far as it is revolutionary against every
form of injustice
3. Liberal education is developed only when a curriculum can be devised which is the same for all
me and should be given to all men
4. Each student is a man and his characteristic powers are reason and free will
5. Education for freedom cannot itself be instituted until the educators understand the principles
of freedom, until they realize that freedom is not an end in itself but a consequence of justice
and an affair of rights and duties
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3. Liberal education
7. Freedom is not an end in itself but a consequence of justice and an affair of rights and duties
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3. The application of science resulting in the great inventions that have utilized the forces of nature on
a vast and inexpensive scale
8. Girls stay at home and boys were our educational system only adequately rounded out into trade
schools for their future vocations
10. The need to not prepare the future members of the social order in a medium in which the conditions
of the social spirit are imminently wanting
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3. School work consists in simply learning lessons, mutual assistance, instead of being the most
natural form of cooperation and association
4. A spirit of free communication of interchange of ideas, suggestions, results, both successes and
failures of previous experiences
5. A sense of order which is relative to an end. If the end in view is the development of a spirit of
social cooperation and community life, discipline must grow out of and be relative to this
6. Under the industrial regime, the child, after all, shared in the work not for the sake of the sharing
but for the sake of the product
7. The world without its relationship to human activity is less than a world
8. Having children doing household chores such as sewing on buttons and making patches, it gives us
the point of departure from which the child can trace and follow the progress of mankind in history,
getting an insight also into the materials used and the mechanical principles of mankind in history
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1. With regards to the teaching of science, Dewey states that under present conditions, all activity, to be
successful, has to be directed somewhere and somehow by the scientific expert- it is an ease of
applied science
2. When occupations in the school are conceived in this broad and generous way…..such occupations
are out of place in the school because they are materialistic, utilitarian, or even menial in their
tendency.
3. Each one of us shall have had the education which enables him to see within his daily work all there
is in it or large and human significance
4. There needs to be a change in the attitude of the school one of which we are as yet far from realizing
the full force
5. Our school methods and our curriculum are inherited from the period when learning and command of
certain symbols affording as they did the only access to learning were all important
6. Our present education which is highly specialized, one sided and narrow. It is an education
dominated almost entirely by the medieval conception of learning.
8. Modifications of our school system to be mere changes of detail, mere improvement within the
school mechanism are in reality signs and evidences or evolution.
9. Make each one of our schools an embryonic community life, active with types of occupations that
reflect the life of the larger society and permeated throughout with the spirit of art, history and
science.
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1. Looking at the school from an individualistic standpoint as something between teacher and pupil and
between teacher and parent.
2. Only by being true to the full growth of all the individuals who make it up, can society by any chance
be true to itself. And in the self-direction thus given, nothing counts as much as the school
3. The type of education that best prepares citizens to maintain freedom that we cherish in our cultures
is what Dewey defines as the “New Education”.
4. The industrial education- the application of science resulting in the great inventions that have utilized
the forces of nature on a vast and inexpensive scale: the growth of a world-wide market as the object
of production of vast manufacturing centers to supply this market of cheap and rapid means of
communication and distribution between all its parts
6. The one of the most striking tendencies at present is toward the introduction of the so-called manual
training, shop-work, and the household arts- sewing and cooking.
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2. Channeling dollars away from the institutions which now treat health, education, and welfare
5. The stopping of the existence of school discouraging and disabling the poor from taking control of
their own learning.
6. School is seen as an institution which specializes in education and that the failures of school are
taken by most people as a proof that education is a very costly, very complex, always arcane, and
frequently almost impossible tasks. This attitude needs to change.
13. Schools are the wrong places for leaning a skill and are even worse places for getting an education
thus the need for deschooling to be free
14. The exchange of skills and matching of partners based on the assumption that education for all
means education by all
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1. With regards to the poor, they have been powerless and the increasing reliance on institutional
care adds a new dimension to their helplessness
2. In the United States, the black and even the migrant can aspire to a level of professional treatment
3. The poor depend on outside agencies such as truant officers and doctors but this care only makes
the individual increasingly incapable of organizing their own lives around their own experiences
and resources within their own communities
4. The individual poor in the U.S. inner city can demonstrate from their own experience the fallacy
on which social legislation in a “schooled” society is built.
5. The poor child can seldom catch up with a rich one even with schools of equal quality
6. With regards to the first amendment, to make this disestablishment effective, we need a law
forbidding discrimination in hiring, voting, or admission to centers of learning based on previous
attendance at some curriculum.
1. Welfare bureaucracies claim a professional, political, and financial monopoly over the social
imagination, setting standards of what is valuable and what is feasible.
2. The poor in the U.S. inner city can demonstrate from their own experience the fallacy on which
social legislation in a schooled society is built
4. Education is not equal between the rich and poor individual. The poor child can seldom catch up
with a rich one in a school of equal quality
5. The belief that universal schooling is absolutely necessary is most firmly held in those countries
where the fewest people have been and will be served by schools
6. All over the world, the school has an antieducational effect on society; school is recognized as the
institution which specializes in education
7. With regards to the individual, the failures of school are taken as a proof that education is a very
costly, very complex, always arcane, and frequently almost impossible task
8. For the individual, work, leisure, politics, city living, and even family life depend on schools for
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the habits and knowledge they presuppose, instead of becoming themselves the means of
education
9. For the individual roles are assigned by setting a curriculum of conditions which the candidate
must meet if he is to make the grade.
1. The one type of education that prepares citizens to maintain a freedom that we cherish our culture
is an institution that we finance
2. The added funds enabled schools to cater disproportionately to the satisfaction of the relatively
richer children who were disadvantaged by having to attend school in the company of the poor
3. For our culture, the type of education that best prepares citizens is an obligatory school
4. For the citizen, school appropriates the money, men, and good will available for education and in
addition discourages other institutions from assuming educational tasks.
5. To maintain the freedom that we cherish, we need to look to the obligatory school which polarizes
a society and also grades the nations of the world according to an international caste system
6. In today’s culture the school has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat and makes
futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age
7. The best type of education that prepares citizens to maintain the freedom that we cherish is
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8. A learning that happens casually and as a by-product of some other activity defined as work or
leisure