All Posts Tagged With: "John Dewey"

Montessori, Dewey and Capitalism: Educational Theory for a Free Market In Education

For years, school-choice proponents have assessed and reassessed the possibilities of expanding government support for vouchers. Jerry Kirkpatrick’s Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism: Educational Theory for a Free Market in Education is a refreshing alternative to those tired discussions of political coalitions, legislative machinations, and disparate school-choice programs. Indeed, Kirkpatrick’s book is one of the first [...]

15Oct2009 | Terry Stoops | 0 comments | Continued

John Dewey and the Decline of American Education

by Henry T. Edmondson, III Reviewed by Terry Stoops

1Jul2007 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

School and State: A Neat Solution to the Neatby Dispute

Daniel Hager is a writer and consultant in Lansing, Michigan.
Before there was Rudolf Flesch there was Hilda Neatby.
In 1955 Flesch published Why Johnny Can’t Read, a bestseller that charged the U.S. educational system with malfeasance for not correctly teaching young students how to read.
Two years earlier Hilda Neatby (1904–75), a University of Saskatchewan history professor, [...]

1Dec2003 | Daniel Hager | 0 comments | Continued

Nock on Education

Wendy McElroy is a contributing editor of Ideas on Liberty.
The self-proclaimed “philosophical anarchist” Albert Jay Nock thought he was so superfluous to the society around him that he titled his 1943 autobiography Memoirs of a Superfluous Man. He felt utterly out of step with the twentieth century.
Born in 1870, he witnessed the severe societal changes [...]

1Jan2000 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | Continued

The Liberal in the Modern World

Mr. Phelan is vice president of the St. Louis Union Trust Company. This article is from a 13-page essay.
Perhaps the most fundamental difference between traditional liberals and twentieth century liberals is their attitude toward man. The traditional liberal thinks in terms of man as an individual. The twentieth century liberal thinks of man as a [...]

21Nov2009 | Towner Phelan | 0 comments | Continued