At this very instant, I'm not really sure what John Dewey means by chains. By chains, he can by trying to say something like something holding down a person. It may also mean having something right in front of you but it is hard to get to because of its chains. So in fact, you have to work harder to get to that something.
Now the two facts that I have mentioned can be, and is probably wrong. But I have come up with a new idea in which why Dewey wrote this. What he means by chains is probably having a family. Your family, for the most part stay together and is very hard to break, like a chain. We get used to this "chain" because family is always there for you when times are hard. When those chains are removed, we tend to miss them.
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Alex,
Dewey was an education theorist, so I think he was talking mostly about how we get used to certain "restraints" in education to the point that we seem them as normal and feel out of sorts when they're not there (kind of like what I'm dealing with in this class!)
Looks like you're keeping up with your blog, but it would be great to see you take each entry a little further...
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