I don’t get to read John Dewey across long afternoons or evenings anymore, just me and some coffee and a legal pad, the whole “life-of-the-mind” thing. Now I get to look at my notes, my scribblings in margins, my occasionally typed up written responses. Anyway, I like to give out My Pedagogic Creed on the first day of the student teaching seminar. I’m asking them to re-write their philosophy of education (again) and I want them to look at someone else’s first. Who better than Dewey?
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I believe that the teacher’s business is simply to determine on the basis of larger experience and riper wisdom, how the discipline of life shall come to the child. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s not just throwing stuff at kids and seeing what sticks. It’s not turning them loose to “inquire” while you read the “Inquirer.” It’s this — carefully measuring your own ideas, your students’ ideas, your understanding of the content — and figuring what the beast approach is to creating an intellectually rich classroom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I don’t get to read John Dewey across long afternoons or evenings anymore, just me and some coffee and a legal pad, the whole “life-of-the-mind” thing. Now I get to look at my notes, my scribblings in margins, my occasionally typed up written responses. Anyway, I like to give out My Pedagogic Creed on the … Continue reading Dewey, again<\/span>