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This idea that students can be valuable inputs in each other’s learning traces its origins, most influentially, back to John Dewey. Dewey, writing at the turn of the 19th century, argued that “apart from the thought of participation in social life, the school has no end or aim.” Furthermore, he wrote that the social context of an education should be evident in “both the methods and subject-matter of instruction,” that the two should be consistent and mutually reinforcing. This was as much a practical...
...Stephen E. Dewey ’07 is a government concentrator in Kirkland House, currently on voluntary leave, and a former president of the Harvard Republican Club...
Move over Gallup Poll—Facebook.com is the new election oracle, accurately predicting the results of nine out of 12 races last week.But the Web site’s new “Election Pulse” also had a few “Dewey Defeats Truman” moments. For example, an independent candidate for Texas governor, Kinky Friedman, won 66.9 percent of the Facebook vote—but garnered just 13 percent at the polls. Facebook’s new “Pulse” feature allowed members to support candidates by visiting profiles and clicking...
...leadership change in stride. “Every year you have people who leave who are valuable to the club, and every year you get new members to try and fill the gaps,” says Kwong, HRC director of membership and minority outreach. Still, Kwong admits that Dewey was a “major asset,” and that his “departure is certainly a loss for our club...
...recent leadership issues seem to have slowed the Republicans down in these past few months. “In 2005, we were not extremely organized but we still broke 200 signups,” Dewey says. “This year we pulled out all the stops and aggressively solicited pre-frosh, but we only got about 150—and this is an election year, so our numbers should have been higher than last year...