ABSTRACT
According to Dewey (1939), the aim of education is to unite individual citizens and their society through an approach based on democratic values and practices. The purpose of education is the achievement of progress through giving voice to all sectors of the community. Dewey’s perception of democracy is based on a philosophic perspective that has:
. . . faith in the capacity of human beings for intelligent judgment and action . . . so that they can fully take part in democratic life . . . to respond with common sense to the free play of facts and ideas which are secured by effective guarantees of free inquiry, free assembly and free communication?
