UNIVERSIDAD Y APRENDIZAJE SOCIAL. LA PEDAGOGÍA DEL COMPROMISO CÍVICO EN USA.

Resumo

I am told that there is a swimming school in a certain city where youth are taught to swim without going into the water, being repeatedly drilled in the various movements which are necessary for swimming. When one of the young men so trained was asked what he did when he got into the water, he laconically replied, “Sunk.” The story happens to be true; were it not, it would seem to be a fable made expressly for the purpose of typifying the ethical relationship of school to society. The school cannot be a preparation for social life excepting as it reproduces, within itself, typical conditions of social life... The only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life (Dewey, 1975 -original 1909-, pp. 13-14).