6. Education: Texts
- From 101 Zen Stories (1919)
These Zen koans accompany the “Ten Oxherding Pictures,” on page 472 of the text.
- John Dewey: “What Education Is”
This brief definition of education comes from Dewey’s manifesto, “My Pedagogic Creed,” published in 1897. It outlines the features of Dewey’s “progressive education,” which became important to many twentieth-century reformers, such as Paulo Freire.