In My Pedagogic Creed John Dewey stresses the need for education to prepare the student for life. In order to do this schools must teach through social interaction as well as psychological. John Dewey states “To prepare him for the future life means to give him command of himself; it means so to train him that he will have the full and ready use of all his capacities” (2) Without social interaction a child will never be able to put the psychological knowledge he is given in to use.
Dewey points out in the beginning of the article that education begins unconsciously. The child learns easily through experience before school. Keeping this in mind Dewey suggests that experience should be used to educate in school. He also suggests that life out side of school offers to much stimuli for a child and that he believes “ that the school, as an institution, should simplify existing social life; should reduce it, as it were to an embryonic from.” (3)
Overall Dewey emphasizes the need for social interaction in the classroom. He points out how it can be incorporated into the education system and how school systems need to limit the amount of information simply told to student rather then learned through experience. Ever student is different and will interrupt the information differently. Therefore the schools should act as a guide helping the child filter the incoming information.