The Meaning of Education by Stephen Ross (auth.)
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A competent technician is educated to the extent that he is competent, but he is poorly educated to the extent that there are things he cannot do, perspectives he cannot share. In other words, education in the honorific sense is not only the determination of a perspective for an individual, but is also the diversification of powers and capacities of sharing other perspectives. It is the determination of as many perspectives as possible for an individual; it is the endowment of an individual with the powers of producing significant products in as many perspectives as possible.
The concept of frame of reference or perspective is essential to the philosophy of education, for to speak of an individual as a proceiver is to speak of him as a producer in various and different perspectives. An individual's education in the generic sense is the cumulation of his experience, and this cumulates in the ways he produces, the perspectives he takes. An individual's education contributes specifically to the way he acts, makes and asserts, the different perspectives which form the frames of reference for his products.
School, as Dewey emphasizes strongly, is the primary means in our society of intentional and purposeful education; and it must therefore cope with the educative effects of past experience-the results of external, fortuitous, unregulated events. Life is educative in profound and multifarious ways, and school must reflect this by taking into account the actual character of the individual's experience.