The Child And The Curriculum John Dewey

There has been a lot of controversy about what is being taught to children in school over the years, but have you ever looked at what the younger generations are learning from your own un biased point of view. John Dewey writes an essay titled “The Child and the Curriculum” in which he explains his views on what our children are learning in school. Dewey says, “Abandon the notion of subject-matter as something fixed and ready made in itself, outside the child’s experience; cease thinking of the child’s experience as also something hard and fast…”(303), this explains to readers the argument Dewey is attacking. Dewey then goes on to explain his point of view and how education should be "fluent, embryonic, and vital as well as a how a child and their curriculum are two points in reaching one goal"(303), the goal of becoming a mature, successful adult. One more sentence. When Dewey wrote his essay he had the idea to persuade his readers that the education of children is not some awful thing they have to endure and go through. He wrote his essay to persuade his readers that children learn from experiences rather than the subject
Therefore, the curriculum should not be something that is overwhelmingly hard because then the child might be too focused on the subject matter rather than the experience. I both agree and disagree with Dewey, I think that depending on what stage of life you are at will determine if the subject matter or the experience is more vital to your learning. Dewey makes a few assumptions that weakens his argument, the main one being that education is too hard and fast to give children time to experience life. Children can handle their education and if they can't they are put in classes to accommodate that. So a child's education may be difficult but it is not so hard they the child loses experiencing