Word: deweyism
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Speaking before the Hillel Round Table of World Affairs, Bruner emphasized the emerging concepts of education, comparing them to the educational philosophy of John Dewey...
According to Dewey, education should relate the world to the life of the growing child. Knowledge had to be "ingested as an alien thing...
...people -- mostly grim old ladies. The one last Friday, however, was an unqualified success which reduced even so sentimental a liberal as columnist Murray Kempton (New York Post) to savage comments about "children" who don't respect their (liberal) elders, and to bitter disillusionment about the merits of John Dewey's educational reforms. Four thousand attended the rally, and -- according to perhaps exaggerated official estimates -- from three to six thousand more had to be turned away. The vast majority were bona fide high school and college students...
Sidney Hook is scheduled to teach a middle-level course on problems in social and political philosophy, and a seminar on John Dewey. Hook teaches regularly at New York University...
...Hoover to become a New Deal brain-truster, founded the Good Neighbor League in 1936, was disowned by F.D.R. a year later for writing a magazine article revealing policy differences within the White House, and thereafter enlisted his skill as a publicist in the campaigns of Republican Candidates Willkie, Dewey and Eisenhower; of pulmonary complications following heart trouble; in New York City...