Democracy and Education Issues

Mahatma Gandhi once said: "If we can change ourselves, the trend in the world will change, as the attitude of the world changes when people change his own character." Regarding our democracy and education, we are rapidly descending the mountain. The reason is that it takes less time to understand the problems that occurred before democracy and education grew and did not care about the children's education as a whole and did not discuss the public issues correctly. Words, but we are arguing to change the argument to fight, and the battle to die.

Appears: (a) Education and democracy, and (b) pursuit of happiness. Education and democracy Dewey often returns to Plato and Greeks in his educational activities. Plato is the starting point for many problems in the development of philosophy as a history of thought and academics. Plato is the product of his career. Plato's society creates a class hierarchy that individuals are subordinate to larger groups. Plato could not see the static nature and his ideals of his society. Ironically, democracy improves the quality of education and provides education to more people regardless of the place of social life (Dewey, 1916)

The collection of articles in this special issue commemorating the centenary of democracy and education is carefully selected from many of the conference's speech as it relates to problems directly related to education for children between 3 and 13 It was. They reflect the international aspects of the conference and the rich and diverse themes that will be widely valued educational resources in the work of John Dewey. In this activity, many papers cited publications of John Dewey other than democracy and education. Inevitably, as dedicated as a devout writer and philosopher to critical work, the book can not fully reflect the full depth and richness of his thoughts.