Word: deweyism
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...from the state's polluted rivers and streams, by forcing mine operators to reforest the huge scars made by strip mining, by establishing public recreation areas and raising unemployment insurance. He had tangled with Joe Grundy again at the 1948 convention when he refused to clamber aboard the Dewey bandwagon. Now both sides recognized that the struggle was at a crucial stage...
Everyone also agreed that the Conservative position was not too far from that of the Laborites. "The conservatives are in much the same position as Dewey was in our last campaign," Holcombe said. Their campaign, he stated, does not appear to be too effective...
...Refined? Education rolled off Mark Hopkins' log for good. It became a world of controversy-of Dewey's progressives who saw only limited good in the measurement movement (how, .they asked, could character be measured?), of the measurers who denounced the traditionalists ("I am," said Thorndike, "suspicious of educational achievements which are so subtle and refined and spiritual that they cannot be measured"), and the traditionalists who denounced them both...
...Kenneth Oberholtzer's convention guests, however, all that would have a familiar sound. All over the U.S., critics had raised their voices to attack the educators and the basic pragmatic philosophy of John Dewey from which in large part their system sprang. There were also critics with a simpler question: Were the schools trying to do too much, and thus doing nothing thoroughly...
...important than the daily headlines, and science more important than sewing. They seemed to be cluttering up their programs with too many matters that should be learned at home, or in jobs and daily life after the school had finished its work in the basic essentials. Long ago, John Dewey himself had complained of the cluttered burden the schools had to carry: "The public school is the willing packhorse of our social system; it is the true hero of the refrain: Let George do it." If George were only less willing, he might indeed be more able...