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Dewey v. Hutchins Sirs: ... I was very much interested in "Dewey Stands Firm" (TIME, Aug. 21). And Dr.
. . . What does Mr. Dewey consider the fruits of our too-well-remembered science, the blood-soaked fields of Europe? I think Thomas Aquinas can help us to emerge from our state of barbarism if Mr. Dewey & Co. will just give him a chance! Bravo Mr. Hutchins!
Compromising in the Dewey-Hutchins controversy on liberal education, Raphael Demos, associate professor of Philosophy, told an audience of students and faculty in the Lowell Junior Common Room last night that the two ideas must be combined "in a hopeful system of education for the future."
Yet the guest speaker pointed to flaws in both positions. Examining the Hutchins, or scholastic school, he found that it became "authoritarian, bookish," and, in addition, "fell in love with its own perfection." On the other hand, he called the scientific or modern method, "anti-rational," "unreflective." "We have science...
But writing in FORTUNE for August, Philosopher Dewey talks back. He calls the neo-scholastics of the Hutchins school "historical illiterates." In harking back to Greek and medieval ideals of education, says he, they forget that Greek liberal education was not only founded on first hand observation but was also...