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Even a simpleton would know from this that Philosopher Dewey has been driven by his concept of philosophy to become an educator. He is one of the greatest. His small volume School and Society (1899) caused world wide repercussions among pedants, pedagogs & preceptors. His lectures at Peking, while he held an exchange professorship there in 1919-20, wrought profoundest effects upon Chinese students ?and in China it was the "student move-ment" which produced the present Nationalist Government (see CHINA) now exerting authority over two-thirds of Cathay...
...general, U. S. Christian missionaries deplore the instantaneous affinity displayed by pragmatic young Chinese for Dewey doctrines. To him and to many of them the Kingdom of Heaven and the Prince of Peace seem nearly destitute of practicality...
...Dewey doctrines are best not heard from the lips of the Second Confucius. His delivery is monotonous, halting, full of long pauses while the great mind ponderously moves careless of the impatience of auditors. But a printed page of Dewey is starred with diadems...
There, in an epigram, is almost the core of Dewey's concept of education: a concept about which he will soon be shrewdly questioned by Red Commissar Lunacharsky, guiding educator of the largest and perhaps least tutored nation on the globe...
...basic concept & method of Educator Dewey derives with brutal logic from a major premise, a definition. He postulates...