This way of looking at education is radical, but it is not esoteric. It is exactly what Dewey tried to express, in very nonmystical language, in Democracy and Education (Dewey 1966). His vision of a democratic culture explicitly recognizes the expansion and reconstruction of human experience that is possible when people come together to shape their common good: Genuine democracy (not the present kind, where elections are a form of marketing or entertainment) allows us to transcend the limitations of our habitual understandings and beliefs as we engage each other in a shared pursuit of community. Holistic educators still have much to learn from Dewey, even as we seek a more spiritually informed understanding of human existence than his overly rational, social-scientific language permits.