The name of the thriller was Too Lively to Live. The man in carpet slippers sitting in an easy chair reading it was nearly 87, and the No. 1 theorist of U.S. education. John Dewey had just published ...

Why revisit John Dewey’s philosophy on education and democracy now? I think it is time to revisit Dewey’s philosophy about the value of field trips, classroom experiments, music instruction and ...

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This article is adapted from Paul Kengor’s book Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. Google the phrase “founding father of public education,” and you’ll likely ...

EUROPEAN domination of American educational theory ended with the nineteenth century. Professor John Dewey, long of I Columbia University but then of the University of Chicago, published The School ...

RALEIGH — Just about everyone has an opinion about how to improve education, and it’s usually an opinion passionately held and forcefully argued. It’s not hard to see why. After all, schools are the ...

Unruffled by blasts from Buenos Aires’ Luna Park and the University of Chicago’s Midway, unshaken by waverings and defections in the ranks of his own followers. John Dewey at 84 stands rock-firm in ...

Dewey has been to our age what Aristotle was to the later Middle Ages, not a philosopher, but the philosopher, added historian Hilda Neatby. The philosopher began his education in Burlington public ...

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