Book Review [Michigan Education Report]

re: "John Dewey & the Decline of American Education: How the Patron Saint of Schools Has Corrupted Teaching and Learning, by Henry T. Edmondson III, ISI Books, 2006. /If the title of Henry T. Edmondson’s book leaves any room for doubt as to his views on John Dewey and Dewey’s educational theories, the book’s subtitle should make clear Edmondson’s belief: Dewey’s lasting influence on the U.S. education system has wrought nothing but diminishing returns, if not all-out catastrophic results. Edmondson makes a compelling case that Dewey was far more interested in using public education for social reform rather than academic learning, and in placing students’ vocational concerns above encouraging a traditional liberal arts education..."...