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...actions. On the other hand, he also stands apart from the recent upsurge of Christian existentialism propounded by Jaspers and Tillich. In short, amidst changing philosophical fashions, he has remained steadfast to the credo he learned, not at his mother's knee, but from his spiritual father, John Dewey-a rational humanist whose roots reach back to Enlightenment...
...decade, he has championed liberal anti-Communism against both the political left and right. In his latest collection of essays, he turns from politics back to philosophy, offering finely reasoned argument coupled with a lucid style and humane tolerance. A great many readers will violently disagree with his Dewey-eyed "pragmatic naturalism," his belief that the scientific method is readily applicable to moral problems. Some may find his anti-religious skepticism dated or even antique. But anyone who wants to understand the broad tradition in Western thought which Sidney Hook represents could scarcely find a better, clearer or more honest...
...forgotten Maria Montessori, the practical Italian idealist who founded her own brand of progressive education in 1907. Though once Americans acclaimed her, John Dewey's permissive disciples pooh-poohed her as too rigid, and only in Europe have Montessori schools made real headway. But last week, in a handsome new building in Greenwich, Conn., the nation's only "pure" Montessori school was dedicated. Whitby School is startling on at least two counts: it was founded by firmly anti-permissive Roman Catholics, and its old Montessori methods turn out to be a showcase of nearly every "new" idea that...
...Investigators. How much had it cost to investigate Chrysler officers after the Newberg scandal, inquired a stockholder, and then to hire Tom Dewey's law firm to investigate the investigation...
Attacking the socialization of the individual in Dewey's philosophy, Bruner declared that "education must help the individual develop his own internal culture." Modern culture is so complex, he said, that even a Galileo or an Aquinas could no longer master it in its entirety...