"A child's learning is the function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher." James Coleman, 1972

Monday, December 07, 2009

Scary

John Dewey's Democracy and Education sits at #5 between The Kinsey Report and Das Kapital on the Wingnut Top 10 List of Most Dangerous Books of the Past 200 Years. For such Palinoid miseducationists, in fact, the two scariest side-by-side words besides "John" and "Dewey" are "social" and "justice."

Mike Klonsky has the story.

1 comment:

  1. OMG! I have all of these books on my shelf! Wait a minute, I think I hear the thought police knocking at my door right now!

    Yeah, this really is quite frightening, but it does explain an awful lot, doesn't it. We just don't have a chance to keep this country from going over the edge.

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