Word: pragmatist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quasi-pragmatist I got quite a kick from your Adler article . . . Perhaps education is a racket, but as any high-school lad knows, there is none bigger than selling "Great Books" to hopeful parents, whereupon they collect dust and provide quarters for termites in the parlor...
...class Mortimer Adler harassed the eminent professor by sending him long, learned letters pointing out how his lectures contradicted his earlier lectures. For a time, Pragmatist Dewey read the letters in class, but eventually he called Adler to his office and suggested he lay off. Adler did not lay off. He has continued to take intellectual potshots at Dewey and his disciples...
...should be educated. But in the 20th Century, another question became dominant: How should everyone be educated? To some, the old rules of teaching were enough-spooning out each day's lessons with little regard for what made children remember or forget them. Then such educator-philosophers as Pragmatist John Dewey began to broadcast new theories. To them, children could learn as much from experience, from solving real-life problems and from doing, as from drilling out of books. The curriculum, said Dewey, must be elastic, the school a miniature society; education was "living and not a preparation...