Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education

Only when it becomes cast in a mold and runs in a routine way does it lose its educative power.

or it assumed that the aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education—or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth

of growth, having as its aim at every stage an added capacity of growth

the educative process is a continuous process

the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up. When we have the outcome of the process in mind, we speak of education as shaping, forming, molding activity—that is, a shaping into the standard form of social activity