Posts Tagged ‘ John Dewey ’

Dewey and the Existentialists

Perhaps I should have called this posting America’s own philosophers – forgotten and abandoned – because that is really what it is about. But I studied the existentialists first, and then the American Pragmatists – so that is the context I put them in. Americans have been against any kind of theorizing for a long [ READ MORE ]

John Dewey: The Lost Individual

John Dewey was a philosopher, and sometimes he writes as one – carefully and logically. The following passage , which I am copying from the book Classical American Philosophy, page 383, has this same lucid, calm, academic style. Bear in mind, however, that what he is describing is our modern version of Hell. The development [ READ MORE ]

John Dewey, Part Two

America has had its thinkers, but they have been ignored – and John Dewey is a case in point. I once heard a good educator described as “Someone who had a bad case of John Dewey – but got over it.” On other words, he realized that America had rejected Dewey, and so he did [ READ MORE ]

John Dewey on Education

John Dewey’s book Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education should well-known to all Americans. Everyone concurs that democracy cannot exist without an educated citizenry. And this is a classic in its field. But almost no Americans are familiar with it. And it is available instantly for free – via Amazon’s Kindle [ READ MORE ]

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