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I think we'd benefit more from taking a critical look at the ideas of John Dewey that pervade virtually all of education. Unions are definitely a blight on edu
by kevin_morrill 16y ago
I think we'd benefit more from taking a critical look at the ideas of John Dewey that pervade virtually all of education. Unions are definitely a blight on education, but a screwed up epistemology is much more fundamental.
Details on Dewey's approach, which is pretty much gospel in American education, can be found at http://dewey.pragmatism.org/creed.htm http://dewey.pragmatism.org/creed.htm
Thinking is not a social function; communicating is. If you wonder why politicians spend less time thinking and more time following polls--look no further. If you wonder why our country fails to enlist math and science--here's your answer.
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- grandalf 16y agoInteresting. The only thing I'd offer as a counter-argument is that if the public education monopoly were broken then chances are there'd be a lot of different philosophies guiding the emerging schools. Any top-down system suffers the weakness that a choice made from on high might not be the best for everyone, or that competing approaches might never be explored.
- shawndumas 16y agohttp://reason.com/archives/2010/09/16/money-is-not-what-schools-need http://reason.com/archives/2010/09/16/money-is-not-what-scho...