HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries
HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries:
John Dewey, who lived from 1859 until 1952, was a “progressive” philosopher and leading advocate for secular humanism in American life, who taught at the University of Chicago and at Columbia. He signed the Humanist Manifesto and rejected traditional religion and moral absolutes. In Democracy and Education, in pompous and opaque prose, he disparaged schooling that focused on traditional character development and endowing children with hard knowledge, and encouraged the teaching of thinking “skills” instead. His views had great influence on the direction of American education–particularly in public schools–and helped nurture the Clinton generation.
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heh, well…. at least he was right.
