If Dewey’s theories had been accurate, it should have been the beginning of a bright new age of understanding.
Instead, the world of the young has become uglier and increasingly self-centered.
What really happens when you couple Dewey’s pragmatic and collectivist ideas with the value neutrality that grew out of Mann’s non-sectarianism ?
The product is a philosophy that sees the student as merely an animal who functions in a kind of stimulus/response/adaptation cycle.
Education is tedious because its utilitarian nature subverts development of the ability to see the beauty that underlies much literature, history, and the natural sciences.
At the same time, its collective nature devalues them as individuals.
Their souls deadened, students see only an ugly world - one which they do not care to understand.
Progressive education has ultimately failed because its premises are anti-human.
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