Stephen Hicks discusses pragmatist philosopher John Dewey’s approach to education. This is from Part 9 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course.
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Another point of disagreement, Dewey. Someone has done all the explanation work to why Dewey should be discarded and his connection to the romantic and Rousseau movement of the 19th century. Most of his ideas and those of the 1960s pedagogues have now been proven wrong. It means that we have the data and researches, which Dewey and all of its kind had not and still don’t have while they continue holding the same ideology.
E.D. Hirsch, JR. “Why Knowledge Matter – rescuing our children from failed educational theories”