Dewey

1. Mature educating the immature: Everyone has a story. People are constantly influencing younger people because of their experiences. This is how society is. We learn from our elder. Everything is passed down. It's interesting to think about what makes up society. This goes back way back, it's not something recent.

2. Communication is educative: We as humans learn through experiences and people we come into contact with. It's not necessarily just learning in a school setting. I would say that the majority of things are learned by listening to others experiences. As educators we are the facilitators of communication. Without communication there is nothing.

3. There needs to be a balance of formal and informal education: Obviously school is important in educating the youth of our future for business opportunities. However without informal education there would be no successful formal education. Informal education is the basis for formal education. Growing up you learned many things from your parents and friends outside of school. This is the basic human contact, which is something that is not necessarily taught in schools. You learn this prior to going to school. It's your base and it continues to grow with every person you come into contact with. I believe educators have strong informal education backgrounds because we are responsible for communicating many things to our youth. As stated in class we are more than teachers teaching subjects, we teach manners, proper behaviors, we serve as mentors, we teach life skills. There are many aspects to teaching.