The relationship between the school and the home

"We cannot overlook the factors of discipline and of character building involved in this kind of life: training in habits of order and of industry, and in the idea of responsibility, of obligation to do something, to produce something, in the world. There was always something which really needed to be done, and a real necessity that each member of the household should do his own part faithfully and in co-operation with others." What Dewey wants in the school system is for the school to reproduce, or if it has to, introduce, what happens or should happen in the home in the school. I think that he wants the school to reflect the household chores in the school. Not necessarily by doing on school what is done at home but relating what is done in school to what is done at home, doing things done at home with an academic twist to it. An example of something that a school could do to uphold this is in math class when teaching children word problems they could use terms in the problem that relate to the home life. Or when teaching the children how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide prices they could use the actual prices and rates of items the children use at home, then the children could even take this home to their parents to help them out. Basically getting work done at school, killing two birds with one stone.

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