Word: deweyitis
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...Coal strikes, race riots, congressional feuds and Thomas E. Dewey-in short, the events...
...computer, Americans more than ever require an extension of knowledge and the right kind of learning. The new education bill does not by itself provide this. It does not contain an ideology of education and would have neither shocked nor necessarily cheered educators from Horace Mann to John Dewey. It does not and cannot answer the question of what shape U.S. education should take in the wake of its long era of permissiveness and mass-production methods; but it does greatly stimulate the search for answers. In short, if it does not guarantee excellence, it promises improvement. And it begins...
...extremely positive." McAndrew reports that "the vast majority" grew in "poise and responsiveness." A retiring 14-year-old with a thumb-sucking habit turned into a conversational leader. Wrote one mother about her son: "It seems hardly possible how much he has matured. He has found himself." Says Student Dewey Long: "The teachers here explain a subject so that I can understand it. There were lots of things I never did understand at home...
...associate professor of philosophy, had been passed over for tenure despite exceptionally "creative" classroom teaching. The Tenure Appointments Committee refused to discuss its decision, but there were hints that it was not impressed by his book (A Study of Some Aspects of Education in Israel), his manuscript on John Dewey, and three chapters of a projected book on pragmatic and analytic philosophy...
...original sources. Having learned anew that writing equals thinking, schools are requiring more composition-and in the process they are finding that a widespread and sensible rebound from distorted permissiveness has permitted the rise of a generation of teen-agers who can spell. And the best of John Dewey's liberating progressive education, with its joy in learning, is a powerful precursor of the discovery method...