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 | 1 comment | ContinuedJohn Dewey and the Decline of American Education
by Henry T. Edmondson, III Reviewed by Terry Stoops
1Jul2007 | FEE Admin | 2 comments | ContinuedSchool 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 [...]
1Dec2003 | Daniel Hager | 0 comments | ContinuedLeft Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms by Diane Ravitch
Simon & Schuster · 2000 · 555 pages · $30.00 Reviewed by Robert Holland In his 1996 book, The Schools We Need and Why We Don’t Have Them, E.D. Hirsch categorized and then proceeded to demolish the doctrines of progressive education that hold American education in thrall. Hirsch exposed the intellectual shallowness behind such notions [...]
1Sep2001 | Robert Holland | 0 comments | ContinuedNock on Education
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 resulting from world wars, revolutions in ideology, and [...]
1Jan2000 | Wendy McElroy | 2 comments | ContinuedThe 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 [...]
1Jun1956 | Towner Phelan | 0 comments | Continued-
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