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...Dewey, the philosopher can only assist at the birth of ideas, shaping values as they come along to meet the needs of the present. He may take hints from the past, but the only real test of an ideal is how it can be expected to work out in the future. Thus, for Experimentalist Dewey and his followers, action became a sort of giant laboratory, where values could be run through a series of streamlined tests. "The method we term 'scientific,' " said he, "forms for the modern man . . . the sole dependable means for disclosing the realities of existence...
...experience, so do children. Mere memory is therefore not enough: children have to act as well as read, to solve everyday problems, as if their school were society in miniature. The aim of education is not knowledge alone, but growth-and growth is the important thing in John Dewey's world...
Over the years, by his writings and his lecture-room teaching Dewey drummed his philosophy of growth into two generations of Americans, and for millions the popular version of his doctrine became, and is, the one true gospel. But for many others, some of them disillusioned disciples, his sole achievement was that in trying to light the way he merely succeeded in putting out the stars...
...crusaded for Sacco and Vanzetti, or thrust himself to the forefront of the fray wherever he spotted a Cause. "As the philosopher has received his problem from the world of action," he once wrote, "so he must return his account there for auditing and liquidation." Last week, John Dewey. long ill in his Manhattan apartment, finally settled his account. At 92, he left the world still growing-and other philosophers still wrestling with the question: growing for what...
Died. Dr. John Dewey, 92, renowned American philosopher and educator, major prophet of progressive education ("learning by doing"); of pneumonia; in Manhattan (see EDUCATION...