Word: deweyitis
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...narrative that articulates the implicit reasoning behind their best policies and guides them toward better future policies. They must stop working within the Right’s discourse and form their own narrative. Such a narrative can be found by looking back and trumpeting two ideals popularized by John Dewey: effective liberty and pragmatism...
...Refusing to accept the ideas of Enlightenment liberals such as John Locke “as immutable truths good at all times and places,” Dewey insisted that we instead conceive of liberty “as something subject to historic relativity...
...great educator John Dewey once wrote that "democracy needs to be reborn in every generation." The problem was that between 1972, when 18-year-olds first got the right to vote, and 2000, youth voting decreased in each election cycle. But there are signs that that dispiriting trend is shifting. Youth participation increased in 2004, and this year there seems to be a youthquake. Young people sense that they are coming of age at a time when leadership?and their role in choosing it?really matters...
...audience-friendly awards show that Corliss fantasizes about already exists. It's called the People's Choice Awards. Dewey Webb, Phoenix...
...AUDIENCE-FRIENDLY AWARDS SHOW that Corliss fantasizes about already exists. It's called the People's Choice Awards. Dewey Webb, PHOENIX...