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Ep. 249: Dewey on Education and Thought (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Is There a Way to Spell Doubt?

Dewey is an advocate for a different form of education, which has been termed progressive education. He thinks traditional education can squash the imagination and squash the desire to inquire. Dewey proposes science as a model, taking an idea, holding it conditionally until it's been tested and invented,. And then accepting it again, conditionally, d until it's proven otherwise.

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