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  • Essay / Experience and Education of John Dewey - 1238

    He gives an example of how without rules there is no game. The game cannot go anywhere if there are no rules to follow. In his principle of interaction, he says that it is based on inner and outer experiences. External experiences related to family, environment, program, etc. While inner experiences concern more personal things such as personality. “Planning must be flexible enough to allow the free play of the individuality of experience and yet firm enough to direct toward a continued development of power” (Dewey58). Dewey suggests that students not only have experiences that concern them personally, but also experiences that they have in other atmospheres. Social control, as Dewey mentions, in a traditional classroom would be about maintaining order and having strict followers, while in a non-traditional classroom it would be more about being able to think about oneself.