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Some Principles of Education for People Who Don’t Want Education to Drain their Children Dry

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Everyone who learns a little bit about educational history in the U.S. learns about John Dewey.  His published ideas, which would seem commonplace and hardly revolutionary today, caused a change in the system of education throughout American public schools which seemed at the time quite momentous. Ordinary people noticed it and referred to “the new schools.” I get these things from reading old books. A few points about all this before moving on. We are still living with Dewey. I dare say that my own essay, below, will be accidentally… Read more Some Principles of Education for People Who Don’t Want Education to Drain their Children Dry →

Help Me With My Word Search

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I’m looking for a word whose definition I remember. The word refers to a teaching practice. When a teacher is introducing an extremely difficult subject that is really entirely beyond the abilities of her students, she may sometimes present introductory material that, from the perspective of an expert in that field, is not strictly correct. She does this so that her students can begin their investigations – can have “something to go on.” Later, when they have progressed and acquired some precise knowledge, she must go back and correct that… Read more Help Me With My Word Search →