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  • Democracy and Education

  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
  • By: John Dewey
  • Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
  • Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey
Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
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In Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1916), John Dewey contends that the primary facts of the birth and death of each of the members of a social group determine the necessity of education.

Dewey viewed the mind and its formation as a communal process, so that the individual is a meaningful concept only when regarded as an inextricable part of their society, whilst the society has no meaning apart from its realization through the lives of individual members.

Just growing up and mastering the bare necessities of life are not sufficient to reproduce the life of the group, as a deliberate effort is required. Newborns are unaware of, and quite indifferent to the aims and customs of the social group, and, therefore, have to be made cognizant and actively interested in these. Dewey argued that education is the only way to achieve this.

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terrible narration

A great book, but the narration made the 19 hour audiobook as pleasant as a root canal.

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The Narration is difficult.

I honestly can't tell yet how much of the actual text has been great because the narration was so distracting.
First: it's the slowest narration of any audiobook I've listened to with lots of weird mid-sentence pauses and so I eventually had the playback speed ratcheted up to 1.40x which is higher than I've ever done.
If you're a fan of narrations with lots of "creative" pronunciations of words and names, this one is a gold mine.
At one point we even get to hear the guy's phone notification ring in the recording.
I really liked the content though when I wasn't getting distracted by the narration, which in terms of style and tone were not actually that bad, but the production was clearly a rush job and the listening experience suffers.
And so, I'm giving this 4 stars, even though the narration is like 1 and a half stars.
One would almost be better off just finding an epub version of the text and having Google AI read aloud the text off the Play Books app.

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The performance is awful, just read the book

Constant mispronunciations. Dude talks like he has no idea what he’s reading. Book is a classic of course

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Disappointing Narration

A humdrum, ponderous, disconnected reading. It was so slow that for the first time I had to speed up the book playback. Detracted from the otherwise important and thought provoking work.

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