In his book, Interest and Effort in Education, John Dewey (2009) investigates education. John Dewey was not a man who was content to merely educate his students. He had the mind of a social scientist. He wanted to know how people learned, why people had certain interests, and why education was important. Dewey ultimately isolated two reasons for education that were important: society benefitted as did the individual student (Dewey, 2009).
Almost 100 years ago, Dewey realized that education needed to benefit both society and individual student. The long-term benefit of education, the good of society, was recognized by Dewey as ...