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The document discusses the concept of education as a process of reconstructing and reorganizing experience rather than merely unfolding latent powers or being shaped by external influences. It emphasizes that education has an immediate purpose of transforming the quality of experience at all stages of life. Ultimately, education is defined as the enhancement of experience's meaning and the ability to guide future experiences.

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The document discusses the concept of education as a process of reconstructing and reorganizing experience rather than merely unfolding latent powers or being shaped by external influences. It emphasizes that education has an immediate purpose of transforming the quality of experience at all stages of life. Ultimately, education is defined as the enhancement of experience's meaning and the ability to guide future experiences.

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to it laden with the spoils of the past.

A mind that is adequately sensitive to the needs and occasions of the


present actuality will have the liveliest of motives for interest in the background of the present, and will
never have to hunt for a way back because it will never have lost connection.

3. Education as Reconstruction. In its contrast with the ideas both of unfolding of latent powers from
within, and of the formation from without, whether by physical nature or by the cultural products of the past,
the ideal of growth results in the conception that education is a constant reorganizing or reconstructing of
experience. It has all the time an immediate end, and so far as activity is educative, it reaches that end—the
direct transformation of the quality of experience. Infancy, youth, adult life,—all stand on the same educative
level in the sense that what is really learned at any and every stage of experience constitutes the value of that
experience, and in the sense that it is the chief business of life at every point to make living thus contribute to
an enrichment of its own perceptible meaning.

We thus reach a technical definition of education: It is that reconstruction or reorganization of


experience which adds to the meaning of experience, and which increases ability to direct the course of
subsequent experience. (1) The increment of meaning corresponds to the increased perception of the

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