Word: deweyitis
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...blamed for going back on promises to the farmers. Farmers and ranchers everywhere told me that Ike had made specific promises in his campaign speeches to them that he would keep "the program" intact if he were elected. Now they blame Secretary of Agriculture Benson and, of course, Tom Dewey and "Eastern money" for talking Ike into breaking his promises. In eastern Oregon, Washington, northern Idaho and Montana, Ike is similarly popular, while Secretary of Interior McKay and the "power trusts and bankers of the G.O.P." are the villains to public-power supporters...
Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott Jr., 52, is a sixth-term Congressman whose 1948-49 stint as Republican National Committee chairman was marked by more noise than victory. Once a Tom Dewey partisan and more recently a member of Eisenhower's personal campaign staff, Scott last week complained that some Republicans in Congress are acting like "quarreling old women," and a few are "old fuds," * blocking the Eisenhower program and thus endangering G.O.P. election prospects. Writing in the American Magazine, Scott named to his "fudocracy": in the Senate, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, 43, Nevada's George...
Preacher in the Cellar. The worst of all this, says Lynd, is that the superprofessionals themselves are often "half-educated or uneducated." Having taken John Dewey's anti-absolutism as the only true absolute, they feel little compulsion to dig into the wisdom of the past. Thus, "one hears the value of classical studies denounced by men whose understanding is obviously uncomplicated by any personal acquaintance with the classics. Emotional conditioning is held to be more important than intellectually acquired information-by persons whose private stocks of information come almost exclusively from the occupational texts which Educationists write...
Should Every Boy Read? The result of all this piffle is that more and more teachers are swallowing the idea that subject matter is no longer important. They have distorted Dewey's "interest psychology" into an excuse for dumping almost anything intellectual, have taken the gobbledygook of Columbia's William Heard Kilpatrick as gospel. "As I look out on life," said Kilpatrick, "I find a lot of people who don't use arithmetic; and I don't think that life would be any richer for them if they used it." Echoed the principal of a Champaign...
...public schoolmen have apparently agreed that the purpose of going to school is "growth"-as John Dewey put it: "The release of capacity from whatever hems it in." Educationally, the results of that doctrine have been somewhat dismal (see above), but esthetically, they have been just the opposite. In the past three years, the nation has put up nearly 14,000 schools. Consciously or not, the best of them fit into the new philosophy perfectly. Both academically and architecturally, the keynote of the new U.S. school is freedom...