Word: deweyitis
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...have apparently forgotten that New York and Massachusetts are the respective stamping grounds of two Eisenhower strongmen, T. E. Dewey and H. C. Lodge. The 114 Ike delegates from these two states comprise just five shy of one-half the Ike delegates in that table...
Author Irene Corbally Kuhn accused the N.E.A. on all the familiar counts (e.g., subversive textbooks, lack of discipline, failure to concentrate on the three Rs), traced the responsibility for left-wing doctrines in the N.E.A. straight back to the late John Dewey and his disciples. All progressive education, she wrote, "has been a deliberate, calculated action by a small but powerful group of educators ... to change the character of American education radically . . . usurp parental authority and so nullify moral and spiritual influences...
...good analysis of the curriculum advocated by Dewey's followers, Author Kuhn quoted the opinion of British Socialist Harold Laski. Commenting on the educational theories of Sociologist Harold Rugg and other progressive educators at Columbia in the early 1930s, Laski said: "Stripped of its carefully neutral phrases, the report is an educational program for a socialist America. It could be implemented in a society only where socialism was the accepted way of life; for it is a direct criticism of the ideas that have shaped capitalistic America...
Three Complaints. Woodring puts much of the dissatisfaction down to a feeling that professional educators have seized control of the schools and are trying to create "a new social order" along the lines of Philosopher John Dewey's pragmatic theories. Specifically, he cites three main complaints...
...that [in the early 1900s] high-school students were a selected group who presumably averaged higher in ability and in literacy of background than the more inclusive group of today . . ." The question of values is the hardest for any teacher to answer. "It was certainly not the intention of Dewey to eliminate values from the schools," says Woodring. But "if the children are being allowed to complete their education with no sense of values, we had better face up to the situation and try to do something about...