[ProgressingAmerica]

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Progressives do not want to discuss their own history. I want to discuss their history.

[Westbrook]

John Dewey was a socialist.

The School as a Socialist Center is really what he had in mind.

For the big cities, and even for many of the suburban areas, this has certainly come to pass.

[mulligan]

The man was an idiot.

[MuttTheHoople]

Don’t call them “progressives”...they’re REGRESSIVES....going back to a day when an elite nobility ruled over serfs.

[Madame Dufarge]

There is a vast amount of unutilized talent dormant all about us. Many an individual has capacity within himself of which he is only dimly conscious, because he has never had an opportunity for expressing it. He is not only losing the satisfaction of employment, but society suffers from this wasted capital.

Individuals are mere "capital", and must be refined, like crude oil, to prevent society from suffering.

Sameness is all, and the master electrician or plumber or carpenter or electrical engineer, with living, breathing souls and personal goals are poor stunted creatures needing to be saved from themselves by enlightened progressives.

Individualism must be destroyed; how else to make the perfect utopian progressive pudding? The last two Presidential elections would seem to indicate that the idea has taken firm hold.

[PrincessB]

Thanks for the light Saturday morning reading! So John Dewey wanted to changed the “meaning” of citizenship. Why? It’s not enough that people vote, they have to vote the right way?

Did I get that learning Chinese history, physics and German are useless because they aren’t practical, but we need to continually educate the common man? OK

Individually learning is savage? Well then I have gone to depths of depravity. I check out MIT course ware all the time. I have an app to learn Hangul (Korean alphabet), an app to practice Spanish, an app to practice music and am thinking about getting an app that can keep me on my toes mathematically. I wonder what John Dewey would think about my customized “app school?”

[Theodore R.]

Peopole will always believe this kind of nonsense. It’s too verbose for them to understand that they are being conned. For the same reason, they will always favor raising the minimum wage.

[MasterGunner01]

The two biggest losers to market “public education” for the masses were Horace Mann and John Dewey at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Both were enthralled with the Prussian model of state education. Education in Prussia was designed to identify a small cadre of governing elites and to provide enough semi-educated fodder for Germany's expanding industrial base. The product of this educational system was literate enough to function, but had no concept of critical thinking. The masses were sheep to be led by the elite shepherds — all products of “public education”. Neither Mann nor Dewey could have foreseen the “dumbing down” of the educated product produced by teacher's unions that is not usable for anything.

[YHAOS]

Another reason for the separation of School & State.