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On Reading Dewey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2017

Walter Feinberg*
Affiliation:
Department of Educational Policy Studies of the University of Illinois, Urbana

Abstract

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Discussion I
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 by New York University 

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Notes

1. Some of these issues I have dealt with in a recent work, see Reason and Rhetoric: The Intellectual Foundations of Twentieth Century Liberal Educational Policy (New York, 1975).Google Scholar

2. See Feinberg, Walter, “Progressive Education and Social Planning,” Teacher's College Record, 73 (May 1972): 486505. CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3. See Yezierska, Anzia, All I Could Never Be (New York 1932), pp. 8283.Google Scholar

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5. Ibid., pp. 70–71.Google Scholar

6. I am indebted to my colleague Joe Burnett for the information on Davidson.Google Scholar

7. Lawson, Alan, “John Dewey and the Hope for Reform,” History of Education Quarterly, 15 (Spring 1975): 61.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

8. Christopher Eisele, J., “John Dewey and the Immigrants”: in ibid.: 68.Google Scholar

9. Ibid., p. 77.Google Scholar

10. Ibid., p. 78.Google Scholar

11. Ibid., p. 78.Google Scholar

12. Feinberg, , “Progressive Education”: 495, parenthesis added here.Google Scholar

13. Ibid.: 486.Google Scholar

14. Ibid., p. 496.Google Scholar

15. Eisele quoting Dewey, p. 74, at the risk of encouraging Eisele's scorn, I have left out part of the quotation.Google Scholar

16. Ibid., p. 79.Google Scholar

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24. Ibid., p. 21.Google Scholar

25. Dewey, , Polish Study, p. 39.Google Scholar

26. Dewey, John, “Conscription of Thought,” The New Republic (Sept. 1, 1917): 129.Google Scholar

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31. As quoted in Wytrwal, Joseph A., Poles in American History and Tradition (Detroit, 1969) p. 328.Google Scholar

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36. Wilson, Woodrow, History of the American People, Vol. 5 (New York, 1902). p. 212. I am indebted to Mayer's paper for bringing this quotation to my attention.Google Scholar

37. Zerby, , “John Dewey and the Polish Question,” p. 25.Google Scholar

38. Dewey, as quoted by Feinberg, as quoted by Zerby, , “John Dewey and the Polish Question,” p. 25, emphasis added here.Google Scholar

39. Ibid., p. 26.Google Scholar

40. Feinberg, , “Progressive Education,” etc.: 493.Google Scholar

41. See Zerby, , “John Dewey and the Polish Question,” p. 19.Google Scholar

42. Ibid., p. 22. Zerby is quoting Dewey.Google Scholar

43. See Polish Report, p. 30.Google Scholar

44. Ibid., pp. 30–31.Google Scholar

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48. Ibid., p. 158.Google Scholar

49. Ibid., p. 26. Zerby quoting Feinberg.Google Scholar

50. This is the argument that I essentially try to make in Reason and Rhetoric and then further elaborate in a more general way in an article entitled “Educational Development Under Two Conflicting Models of Equality,” Theory and Society (Amsterdam, 1975), vol. 2, pp. 183210.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

51. Feinberg, , “Progressive Education,” etc.: 493–484.Google Scholar

52. See Feinberg, , quoting Wirth, “Progressive Education,”: 487.Google Scholar

53. Zerby, , “John Dewey and the Polish Question,” p. 27.Google Scholar

54. Feinberg, , “Progressive Education,”: 488.Google Scholar