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...opinions as to who should be President of the U. S. Next week, Kansas Citizens may expect to see George Eastman, the grey, lean, bespectacled Kodak man, moving about the town. He is a delegate-at-large from New York. Leading the New York delegation is distinguished-looking Charles Dewey Hilles who was President Taft's secretary and later a big insurance man who felt "too poor" to accept proffered Ambassadorships. Mr. Hilles clings to the Coolidge-anyway idea...
...other words: learning should mean discovering how to do. The element of "discovery" is held high if not paramount by Educator Dewey. He declares: "While immature students will not make discoveries from the standpoint of advanced students, they make them from their own standpoint whenever there is genuine learning...
Pupils, then must be "encouraged to utilize their own peculiarities of response to subject matter." They must not learn by rote. In disparaging this latter method, which he finds still all too prevalent Dr. Dewey has said: "Much work in [an ordi-nary] school consists in setting up rules by which pupils are to act of such a sort that even after pupils have acted they are not led to see the connection between the result?say the answer?and the method pursued. So far as they are concerned, the whole thing is a trick and a kind of miracle...
Already, of course, numerous fruits of Professor Dewey's labors are to be seen, green or half ripened, in the more progressive elementary schools of America, Europe, and certain restricted areas of Asia. The great adventure still looming before the Second Confucius is to persuade fellow educators, parents and taxpayers that the "discovery method" can be applied to successively more advanced classes, and will.not degenerate under incompetent teachers into merely "letting the students do whatever they please...
...Convenient is the new one volume The Philosophy of John Dewey, an able selection. (Holt...