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John Dewey and the Decline of American Education

  • Writer: Michael Connolly
    Michael Connolly
  • Jul 4
  • 1 min read

John Dewey and the Decline of American Education: How the Patron Saint of Schools Has Corrupted Teaching and Learning by Henry T. Edmondson III, 2006, Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Dewey objected to the idea of objective truth and to moral absolutes of good and evil. Dewey was infuenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Dewey was an opponent of religion. He objected to Christianity, in particular. Dewey objected to Christianity's focus on the individual improving his own moral character, which he saw as being selfish. Dewey thought that instead peope should concentrate on promoting social justice. Dewey attempted to shift the blame for crime from the criminal to society as a whole, who had made the criminal what he was.


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