Schwab

I found an interesting quote while reading Schwab's "The Practical: A Language for Curriculum." Schwab states, “A curriculum based on theory about individual personality, which thrusts society, its demands and its structure, far into the background or ignores them entirely, can be nothing but incomplete and doctrinaire, for the individuals in question are in fact members of a society and must meet its demands to some minimum degree since their existence and prosperity as individuals depend on the functioning of their society. In the same way a curriculum grounded only in a view of social need or social change must be equally doctrinaire and incomplete, for societies do not exist only for their own sakes but for the prosperity of their members as individuals as well.” (pg. 108) I liked his balanced view that both the individual learner and the role that they assume in society is important.