Our institution is based on John Dewey's pedagogy is very marked by his instrumentalism which wants thought to help humanity to survive and increase its happiness. Just as his philosophy is based on the rejection of dualism between thought and practice and on an interaction between the two. the function of the school is to start from the experience of the children and to give it a direction from the four impulses which are: "to communicate, to build, to seek to know and to refine its expression"
For Dewey, the essential function of the school is to help the child to acquire "character", that is to say a "sum of habits and virtues which will enable him to fully realize himself". For this, we must make the best use of the innate desire that he perceives in children, "to give, to do, that is to say to serve". He is wary of a school based on fear and rivalry because it loses the sense of community in favor of individualistic motivations. This type of school also leads the weakest to lose their capacity and internalize their position of educational inferiority. On the contrary, it must promote the social and democratic sense by being a cooperative community, that is to say "an institution which is, temporarily, a place of life for the child, where the child is a member of the community and that he is aware of this belonging and accepts to make his contribution."
You open your eyes and find yourself in front of a huge building, so tall that the towers seem to touch the sky, young people are flying on brooms and throwing bullets, others seem through the windows of the castle to spit flames, so as you were going to start advancing towards this magical place, pass over your head, a gigantic golden dragon, your first reaction is to flee, but you remember that you are in a school of magic and that you have a date, so what could be more normal than a dragon. The time to lower your eyes and you see in front of you two people who are heading towards you, the first is a very small being with a hooked nose, dressed in beautiful clothes like a nobleman, he is however extremely arched hiding most part of his face, the only detail you see is a huge set of silver keys. The second person is a very tall and very thin young lady, redhead with her hair tied in a bun, she is dressed in a long white toga school crest engraved in gold lettering on her sleeves, you can perceive that her eyes change color from green, to blue, to white, then to purple, and changes again and again.
At your height, the young woman greets you:
"Hello, we were waiting for you, allow me to introduce ourselves, my name is Miss TONKS, Nymphadora TONKS. I am the Deputy Director of the premises, I also teach metamorphosis to our young students. And this is Mr. Regulus, he is the janitor. , protector of the establishment, he serves us as a little elf to do everything here. But no more discussions. Follow us, and come visit our school. "
Then you find yourself teleporting in front of a huge golden door, filled with symbols, some of them seem familiar to you but most unfortunately totally unknown ... they seem to tell a story and just as you were about to ask a question, the elf grabs you by the sleeve and asks you to follow him through the door :