Don’t let your young people sell their souls

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 9, 2018 | Jonathan Zimmerman

[artichokegrower]

In 1916, the great liberal philosopher John Dewey called on schools and colleges to create a more just and decent world. “The present industrial constitution of society is, like every society which has ever existed, full of inequities,” Dewey wrote. “It is the aim of progressive education to take part in correcting unfair privilege and unfair deprivation, not to perpetuate them.” Most Popular

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A century later, our elite universities seem to be fighting the good fight that Dewey envisioned. You can’t graduate from a fancy school these days without learning about human inequality and injustice. Multicultural and global course requirements expose students to the evils of poverty, environmental degradation, gender violence and systematic racism. Campus organizations reinforce these messages by staging protests and coordinating volunteer efforts for underserved communities.

[artichokegrower]

We’ve created a generation of young people who talk the talk of Marx and Foucault

Marx! How many millions have died in the pursuit of a Marxist society? Why didn't the good professor sing the praises of Goebbels?

[sauropod]

Yep

[Aliska]

It was Thomas Dewey who ran against Truman and lost in 1948. I had John confused with him. Thomas was a bit of a progressive on education I believe.

You have to differentiate between socialism and communism. I tend to view socialism as bloodless communism but probably not always so.

Just the word marxism creeps me out. Even so, we have various forms of socialism in the US already. I think of it as a tiered system, socialism and capitalism. I'm not totally against some forms of public works and charity.

[Bullish]

Nothing good will ever come out of San Francisco, the Sodom of the west.

[doorgunner69]

You can’t graduate from a fancy school these days without learning about human inequality and injustice. Multicultural and global course requirements expose students to the evils of poverty, environmental degradation, gender violence and systematic racism.

And seldom anything else, certainly no job skills other than serving SJW coffee.

Like, math is HARD, dude!

[SandRat]

[SVTCobra03]

Here’s what you need to watch with Dewey. He says education but he means indoctrination. He believes the reason kids go to school is to learn to be part of a group. Dewey had absorbed his collectivism from Marx, Hegel and other big thinkers of the 1800s and had, apparently, never doubted it. But how will we reach that brave new world? That is the tactical problem which Dewey is trying to solve in “My Pedagogic Creed.”

You see the offhand way he tosses aside the traditional school subjects. This contempt for knowledge, for facts, for truths--which Dewey states so openly---has stained the entire twentieth century. Please note the irony. He is himself hugely educated. But he has little interest in letting your kids join him. Instead, he is obsessed with their “social activities.”

http://www.improve-education.org/id42.html

[deks]

working link. . .

http://improve-education.org/id42.html

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