
Ep. 249: Dewey on Education and Thought (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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What's the Difference Between Plato and Dewey?
The concept of every child getting this sort of tension they deserve is very resonant now right because we're living in a time when there's staggering inequity and education. Unlike progressive educators, who dewey is often tagged with, he wanted to use the interests and energies and what excites the individual student as the starting point for that. It was also socializing them to be good democratic citizens.
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