Was Dewey communist, nationalist or other?
Group-think isn’t necessarily a communist notion…
[quote]vroom wrote:
Was Dewey communist, nationalist or other?
Group-think isn’t necessarily a communist notion…[/quote]
Dewey was not a true communist, though he did visit the Soviet Union. His philosophy, which underlies modern education, is the idea that you can’t really know anything unless you experience it. Learning from a text, memorizing formulas and so forth, is, to him, worthless. Something is good because it works.
Problems arise, because this prevents long-term thinking. If the world is ‘plastic’, what works today doesn’t work tomorrow, principles are foolish, no one can truly know anything, … and so on.
His philosophy was designed to destroy conceptual thinking in humans. What works at the moment is GOOD, according to his philosophy.
man, I only got freedom of speech, religion, and press. And I only just got my green card less than a year ago!