In order to say that education is a social condition, Dewey states that we need first to understand "the nature of present social life"(81). The implications of human association must first be considered. On page 82, Dewey states that many a "political unit, on

e of our large cities, for instance, is a congeries of loosely associated societies, rather than an inclusive and permeating community of action and thought." This means that the particular societies mentioned, large cities, are made up of different subgroups that are very different, possessing varied opinions and values. They do not share these values or opinions.

The platonic educational philosophy of Plato is next to be discussed. Plato expressed how "the fact that a society is stably organized when each individual is doing that for which he has aptitude by nature in such a way as to be useful to others (or to contribute to the whole to which he belongs); and that it is the business of education to discover these aptitudes and progressively to train them for social use"(88). Plato is discussing how society works best, and that is when people are doing what comes natural to them, what they are b

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