John Dewey's Pedagogic Creed Part 2

Hi there, today we will look at John Dewey's Pedagogic Creed again especially with regard to what he thinks the school is.

"I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life on which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social living. I believe that education, therefore is a process of living and preparation for future living."

"I believe that much of present education fails because it neglects this fundamental principle of the school as a form of community life. It conceives the school as a place where certain information is given, where certain lessons are to be learned, or where certain habits are to be formed. The value of these is conceived as lying largely in the remote future; the child must do these things for the sake of something else he is to do; they are mere preparation. As a result they do not become a part of the life experience of the child and so are not truly educative."

Is this really how we should be doing things in SP?