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October 6, 2010

Phooey on John Dewey by Bruce Deitrick Price

The year: 1897. Dewey’s age: 38. "My Pedagogic Creed" is a fascinating and original work. It's almost art, in the exotic sense that Wittgenstein's "Tractatus" is art. They're both breezily dogmatic, stating a thousand decisive Truths, perhaps a few of which are even true. Here's the key point. Wouldn't we like Dewey to say he has concluded or demonstrated or observed or discovered something? He does not. Here's what he says 74 times in My Creed: "I believe...I believe...I believe..." You want education as fevered religious vision, read Dewey. (Read more...)
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 8:37pm

"Regardless, McCarthyism is dead- the word 'socialism' doesn't work as a scare tactic anymore. Get over it." Lots of socialists commented on your video.

Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 4:59am

Regarding the related video and its comments, so did conspiracy theorists and Dewey worshipers.

For anyone who cares, I submitted this article to RoR with proper credit to the author.

(Edited by Luke Setzer on 10/07, 5:17am)

Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 8:00am

'Socialists are slave lovers' is the only way to put scare into the term, since to implement their view means just that, forcing some to exist for the sake of others [which is what a slave does]...

Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 9:15am

Good approach, Robert! I like that.

Maybe start off with charges of discrimination. They are biased against people for having money - no better than economic racists. Then big out the slavery charge.

Monday, October 11, 2010 - 3:15pm

Fantastic piece, and it not only continued to confirm everything I already believed, but added a new piece:

my parents' generation, and their parents before them believed mine was the first generation to get a dumbed-down education; apparently they too were utterly brain-washed.