Word: deweyitis
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...John Dewey, philosopher and man on the street, is dead, and eventually those who speak of him will learn to use the past tense. It will, however, be difficult...
WGBH, the Lowell Institute station, will broadcast a recorded speech entitled. "John Dewey, Great Philosopher and Great American" by Henry D. Aiken '40, associate professor of Philosophy, between 6:15 and 6:30 p.m. tonight...
...John Dewey is dead, but for a lot of people around this university, and elsewhere, it is going to be difficult to stop saying "Dewey says ..." and start saying "Dewey said ..." For Dewey, who can easily be considered a great 19th century American (he was in his 50's when his colleague William James died), was also a great 20th century American. He retired from a life of teaching in the year when most of the College's seniors were born. Since then he published over 300 books and articles and took an active part in American political life...
...Dewey lived up to his own dictates; when not writing his practical philosophy, he was practicing it. While teaching at Chicago and Columbia he started the system of progressive education that is now the basis, at least to some degree, of most American public education. About half of the articles written in his later years were on social problems of immediate interest. He worked actively to bring the government closer to the people. He lectured all over the country and around the world. Several times Dewey traveled abroad to investigate matters of international concern. He also pointed out the faulty...
...street tends to think of philosophers as sitting in murky chambers and meditating on the existence of the Absolute. John Dewey was a philosopher, but he was also a man on the street, and that accounts for what is most characteristic in his philosophy. It is a practical philosophy, a philosophy of action. Dewey inherited from James the idea that human knowing springs from the needs of human action and never functions as anything more than a guide for action. He expanded James' insight, so that many of his writings are attempts to explain the good, the true...