Dewey thought that the school should provide just this kind of environment. The school should be a place where the other environments that the child encounters-such as family and work-are coordinated in meaningful ways. Thus, education should not be mere preparation for life, but an important part of the life that children themselves live. Children’s lives are as important to them as the lives of adults are to the adults. Thus, educators should be aware of the interests and motivations of children, as well as the environment from which they come. In “My Pedagogic Creed,” Dewey set forth the belief that education has two fundamental sides: the psychological and the sociological. One should not be subordinate to the other because the child’s own instincts and powers provide the material and starting point of all education, and educator’s knowledge of social conditions is necessary to interpret the child’s powers. An educator does not know what these powers and instincts are until they can be translated into their social equivalents for students and projected into their future lives.