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groupthink: together through life
Educational togetherness, as filtered down through the mass legacy of John Dewey, holds that the main object of schooling is to bring about a pupil’s adjustment to a group. That is, a disdain for competition as such and other variances … Continue reading
what came first: the structure or the grammar?
Linguistics began to evolve from philology in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and the most important events occurred in France and Russia. In Paris a young scholar named Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1857-1913) conceived the idea that structure, … Continue reading
multiple choice illiteracy?
…Equally controversial, and it would seem, even less defensible than the look-say method of reading, was the strange device known as “vocabulary control,” which is expressly designed to hold down the number of words a child may learn at any … Continue reading
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Tagged André Kertész, Dr. Banesh Hoffmann, Edna Ferber, john dewey, Martin Mayer
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thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong…
1922…People were dubious about spending twenty-five cents a ticket just to see a poet, but then they tended to be somewhat softened, mollified, by the fact that Lindsay also delivered temperance lectures which appeased the many dry-fanatics at the time. … Continue reading
child’s utopia
It was founded in the mid 1930’s and really reflected the John Dewy “progressive education” ethos of a liberal education; the progressive critique of the conventional assumptions about learning, pedagogical principles and economic thinking as well as religion. The Burgess … Continue reading
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Tagged bill ayers, Boyd Bode, Burgess Hill School, Caroline Pratt, Deborah Meier, Elliott Wigginton, George Conts, George Dennison, James East Burgess Hill, john dewey, Margaret Naumberg, Paul Goodman, Sinclair Lewis, The Dukes of Stratosphear, Theodore Dreiser
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the blue flame this time
James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a perplexing book.You wonder if its socialism using religion as a pretext to promote ideology or whether the attack against money is part of a larger value system intrinsic to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, cornel west, Gustav Landauer, Helen Levitt photography, James Baldwin, James Cone, james h. cone, john dewey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malcolm X, Martin Buber, Martin Luther King, Ralph Ellison
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signs and signifiers: the snapper
He is made out to be an original traveling troubador, but the reality is more varied and complex in the case of Woody Guthrie than being a mere singer of Cantos in the transplanted Spanish heartland of dust bowl America. … Continue reading
rights set loose in the wild
Is there an ambiguity, a gap between formal freedom , formal democracy as practice and ritual: constitutional rights and freedoms, and an economic reality of liberty and a relative value, similar to Heidegger’s cultural relativism, and the inherent income disparities. … Continue reading
kingfish on the hustings
You have to wonder if this new phenomenon called Americans.select.org is an effort to establish a technocracy rule in the United States, something that Thorstein Veblen felt would be the inevitable consequences of a capitalism as it became increasingly complex … Continue reading
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Tagged american political satire, americanselect, americanselect.org, Constance Rourke, elliott ackerman, future 101 blogspot, Guy Debord, Herman Melville, jackie and dunlap, jackie broyles, James Gillray, john dewey, jonathan shockley, Michael Ferguson Polymathica, mitt romney bain capital, mitt romney new hampshire, Randy Newman, thomas friedman new york times, Thorstein Veblen, travis harmon
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