Word: deweyism
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...educated. But in the 20th Century, another question became dominant: How should everyone be educated? To some, the old rules of teaching were enough-spooning out each day's lessons with little regard for what made children remember or forget them. Then such educator-philosophers as Pragmatist John Dewey began to broadcast new theories. To them, children could learn as much from experience, from solving real-life problems and from doing, as from drilling out of books. The curriculum, said Dewey, must be elastic, the school a miniature society; education was "living and not a preparation for future living...
...that Republicans stood to lose more in the North than they could gain in the South. To that, Lodge & Co. had a telling answer. Figuring the 1948 election on the Lodge formula, Democrat Harry Truman would still have won with a total of 258 electoral votes, but Republican Tom Dewey would have picked up an extra 32 electoral votes...
...Politics has fallen into the hands of old men," mused Veteran Socialist Norman Thomas, 65, after a luncheon in Manhattan at which he was paid tribute by some 1,300 admirers, including such friends of varied political persuasions as James A. Farley, Harold Ikes, Philosopher John Dewey, Adolph A. Berle Jr., Union Head David Dubinsky. "If you teach, you retire at 65. But in politics, you're just ripe to be chairman of a Senate committee...
...starting lineups: HARVARD BROWN Chase G Whiston Allen LD Menard Carman RD Dewey DiBlasio LW Priestley Huntington C Copeland Garrity RW Gubbins
Right after lunch is the best time for portraits of important men, famed Portrait Photographers Fabian and Bradford Bachrach told the New York Herald Tribune's Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg. One of the Bachrachs' most difficult subjects, they said, was Thomas E. Dewey. The toughest of all was the late Rorello La Guardia, who "would never sit still." They recalled their favorite "trick"-on overworked President Herbert Hoover at the start of the 1932 presidential campaign. He was too tired to sit erect when he came in for the sitting: "We stacked seven books in a chair...