Democracy In Education

The three most important things I got from John Dewey's Democracy In Education are that education is the lifeblood of society, communication is a necessity for education and that formal education is vulnerable to generation gaps between adults and youth. This idea is vital to the existance of civilization. As the gap gets greater communication gets harder and formal education becomes difficult, causing us to digress as a people.
People learn through informal experience and formal experience. Formal education is what separates sophisticated societies from more primitive societies. If formal education breaks down, then we become more primative.
Communication is a vital necessity of education. We cannot educate if we cannot communicate. Therefore, as communication takes place and grows so does education and subsequently our society. Communication is not only the transfer of knowledge, but, the building of ones experience in a formal sense. It is linking knowledge and skill to life experience. Therefore, education is communicated from one generation to the next.
But, as the education of adults increases, so does the communication gap with their youth. As adults gets smarter, they lose touch with young learners. Therefore, as communication breaks down, so does education and then society.