Word: deweyitis
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...years one of the main battles of U.S. educators has been waged by the followers of John Dewey ("Learning by Doing") on one side, and the followers of Robert Hutchins ("The Great Books") on the other. Last week, in a crisp editorial, the editors of the Freeman sensibly suggested that it was about time for the two factions to get together...
...indeed, should Dewey and Hutchins be opposed to each other? Isn't 'learning by doing' part of any good educational process? Isn't it the mark of the well-educated man, even of the well-educated 'doer,' that he have more than a nodding acquaintance with at least some of the 'great books'? Learning, it has always seemed to us, is a double process; it proceeds by a mixed recourse to both theory and practice...
...81st year, William Heard Kilpatrick is still a formidable figure to U.S. educators-a courtly, silver-haired scholar who next to John Dewey has been the nation's foremost apostle of progressive education. Some schoolmen have revered him and some have damned him, but all have felt his influence. Last week scholars and educators from all over the U.S. assembled in a Manhattan ballroom to celebrate his fourscore years. And last week, in a new biography by ex-Student Samuel Tenenbaum,*readers could learn just what his influence has been in the U.S. school system...
...Teachers College, Rebel Kilpatrick found a permanent home at last. "Everything seems to center here," he once wrote, and to a large extent he was right. Under the leadership of such men as Philosopher John Dewey and Psychologist...
Edward Thorndike, the era of the modern pedagogue had begun. The traditional classroom was being attacked from all sides. Like Dewey, Kilpatrick held that there are no philosophical absolutes, that "criticized experience is the final test of all things." That being the case, education had to be designed anew...