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Progressively worse: the pantheon of misguided educational philosophers grows.(Getting it Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget)(Book Review)
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By Kieran Egan
Yale University Press, 2002, $25; 224 pp.
"Success has many fathers," an old saying goes, "while failure is an orphan." However, in the case of progressive education--a failure if ever there was one--the list of possible parents grows. To the usual names, Kieran Egan, a professor of education at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, adds thinker and writer Herbert Spencer, whose 1861 book Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical sold hundreds of thousands of copies during the late 19th century, when schools as we know them were ...
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