tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post7483249325444332603..comments2023-10-10T05:30:54.239-04:00Comments on Jo-Joe Politico: EDUCATION AND GEOMETRIC PROGRESSIONJoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-29858554052922024392008-12-10T13:40:00.000-05:002008-12-10T13:40:00.000-05:00...works of art are the most intimate and energeti......works of art are the most intimate and energetic means of aiding individuals to share in the arts of living. Civilization is uncivil because human beings are divided into non-communicating sects, races, nations, classes and cliques.<BR/><BR/> -- John Dewey --<BR/><BR/> Yeah, we can't understand another people unless we can understand their art. Troubling since Americans barely understand their own. But Mr. Dewey was valuable here and his writings on the purpose of art are still instructive.<BR/><BR/> Also it is fundamentalists who have the most trouble with Dewey and denounce him the loudest because he was instrumental in separating science from religion in education.<BR/><BR/> He was a church going Congregationalist which might be a little risque for the Baptist sects but he was certainly not hostile to religion.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-35119244296168523622008-12-10T13:30:00.000-05:002008-12-10T13:30:00.000-05:00There were some very interesting results released ...There were some very interesting results released out of Massachusetts this week. Now, needless to say we are liberal. Dewey is not a swear word at say the Harvard or Tufts school of education. <BR/><BR/> Often you will hear about the U.S. standing among nations in math and science education. Well, Massachusetts paid the money (600,000) to have our schools tested and considered a separate nation. <BR/><BR/> We not only pounded the crap out of the United States south but we beat up on the rest of the world. Only Singapore (basically a city) was able to stand with us.<BR/><BR/> Okay, we have an advantage our biology classes aren't hamstrung by creation science and we don't have fundamentalist book burners running around. It's a free exchange of ideas.<BR/><BR/> "Democracy and the one, ultimate, ethical ideal of humanity are to my mind synonymous."<BR/><BR/> "Persons do not become a society by living in physical proximity any more than a man ceases to be socially influenced by being so many feet or miles removed from others"<BR/><BR/> - John Dewey -<BR/><BR/> Staunch defender of democracy. McCarthy hated him and he was also roundly denounced by the American communist party.<BR/><BR/> He was a great American.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-66454142807671327492008-12-02T11:45:00.000-05:002008-12-02T11:45:00.000-05:00This is an excellent essay, Joe. You've given us ...This is an excellent essay, Joe. You've given us the perfect analogy to our public education system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-87246578767139164012008-12-01T21:23:00.000-05:002008-12-01T21:23:00.000-05:00Joe, you are so on target, it's scary. How do we c...Joe, you are so on target, it's scary. How do we change it....I wish I knew....Money to the States Education system....Especially in Special Education and The federeal expectations......No Child left behind another unfunded mandate...and I could go on.....stay wellTaplinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00161842191574184492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-86945794648529661282008-12-01T11:38:00.000-05:002008-12-01T11:38:00.000-05:00Dewey was also one of the educators whose ideas (t...Dewey was also one of the educators whose ideas (the non-Christian) Huxley projected into the future in <I>Brave New World</I>.shoprathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05265612188236394307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-27192704740947240272008-12-01T06:13:00.000-05:002008-12-01T06:13:00.000-05:00I think that was the Dewey Decimated system.I think that was the Dewey Decimated system.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-10198954052024570302008-11-30T18:25:00.000-05:002008-11-30T18:25:00.000-05:00Oh. Then he must be the one that lost to Truman, r...Oh. Then he must be the one that lost to Truman, right?Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-81489810292969335162008-11-30T14:41:00.000-05:002008-11-30T14:41:00.000-05:00Yeah...I think you're right.The Dewey Decimal syst...Yeah...I think you're right.<BR/><BR/>The Dewey Decimal system is another Dewey.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-62501023152215410602008-11-30T09:03:00.000-05:002008-11-30T09:03:00.000-05:00Could it be that students of Deweyism are now runn...Could it be that students of Deweyism are now running our major corporations? <BR/><BR/>That would explain they incessant financial irresponsibility, and their continual pleas to the government to bail them out, which does nothing but hurt them as much as the American taxpayer.<BR/><BR/>Well, at least we have the Dewey Decimal system. That's a good thing, right?Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.com