John Dewey: a classic of education for democracy

John Dewey's conception of democracy is examined in relation to his perspective of society and school in Democracy and education. It is postulated that the author answered to human problems due to industrialization, urbanization, immigration, scientific and technological progress that highlighted bourgeois society, mainly The United States of America, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. According to Dewey, the school played an important role in training and inspired the development of intellectual attitudes of initiative, thinking skill, free spirit and social responsibility. Finally, for the author, such attitudes would favor greater exchange and communication that have cooperated to improve democracy.