Last Post for a While

Dear readers,

When I started this blog several months ago, I hoped to be able to fit it into my schedule even though I was a full time student. Regrettably, my school has taken more time than expected and this blog has had to realize its lower place on the priority list. It is still my deep desire that people be exposed to The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Iserbyt. The book contains such important information about today's education system. I have been thinking also, that a blog may not be the best way to do what I am trying to do i.e., expose people to this book and give them a glimpse into it. In light of this and the other demands on my time, I have decided to place this blog on hold. I am not going to remove/delete it. There just won't be any more posts. After I have graduated, probably sometime this summer, I will consider restarting it. I hope what I have posted so far will give you a feel for the book as well as peak your interest in learning the truth about this subject. If it has done that, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.  Thank you for viewing my blog.  Tiras Charlton

John Dewey Enters The Scene

   
     One of the biggest forces early in the education reform movement was John Dewey. Let's look at what he believed about education and where he thought it should go. 

"Psychology by John Dewey, the father of "Progressive Education," was Published (University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1896). This was the first American textbook on the “revised” subject of education. Psychology would become the most widely-read and quoted textbook used in schools of education in this country. Just prior to the publication of his landmark book, Dewey had joined the faculty of the Rockefeller-endowed University of Chicago as head of the combined departments of philosophy, psychology and pedagogy (teaching). In that same year,
1895, the university allocated $1,000 to establish a  laboratory in which Dewey could apply psychological principles and experimental techniques to the study of learning. The laboratory opened in January 1896 as the Dewey School, later to become known as The University of
Chicago Laboratory School.
     "Dewey thought of the school as a place where his theories of education could be put into practice, tested, and scientifically evaluated….
     "…Dewey… sought to apply the doctrines of experience and experiment to everyday life and, hence, to education... seeking via this model institution to pave the way for the “schools of the future.” There he had put into actual practice three of the revolutionary beliefs he had culled from the new psychology: that to put the child in