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Next Tuesday, October 20, marks the hundredth anniversary of John Dewey's birth. In memory of the philosopher, Antonius Savides, a retired professor prominent in certain educational and psychological circles, has written down an interview he remembers having with Dewey in Lowell House some years...
...legendary figure in Cambridge, Savides is remarkable for his little-known interviews with such figures as Dean Briggs, George Lyman Kittredge, and Bliss Perry. His piece, which follows, is offered as a bit of Dewey Memorabilia...
...nearly three decades John Dewey has been recognized, and is recognized, as the most influential thinker in education and philosopher in general, not only in America but in the world. What is, at least in part, the secret of his greatness...
...historic address on his seventieth anniversary on October 19, 1929, I heard John Dewey say in New York, "...one of the conditions of happiness is the opportunity of a calling, a career which somehow is congenial to one's own temperament. I have had the sheer luck or fortune to be engaged in the occupation of thinking; and while I am quite regular at my meals, I think that I may say that I would rather work, and perhaps even more, play, with ideas and with thinking than eat. That chance has been given...
Tories had behaved much like the U.S. Republicans of 1948, campaigning decorously on the confident assumption that all they needed to do was to avoid rocking the boat. But unlike Tom Dewey's cohorts, the Tories awoke in time to change their campaign style. "Attack," ordered Tory Chairman Lord Hailsham last week. "Expose the grisly Socialist record. Ridicule their crude pretensions...