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#5 - Democracy & Education by John Dewey, who lived from 1859 until 1952, was a “progressive” philosopher and leading advocate for secular humanism in American life, who taught at the University of Chicago and at Columbia. He signed the Humanist Manifesto and rejected traditional religion and moral absolutes. In Democracy and Education, in pompous and opaque prose, he disparaged schooling that focused on traditional character development and endowing children with hard knowledge, and encouraged the teaching of thinking “skills” instead. His views had great influence on the direction of American education--particularly in public schools--and helped nurture the Clinton generation.
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kris wicksI'm guessing that the judges were Christian Conservatives, due to the shelling of the Kinsey Report and The Feminine Mystique. I will buy that Mein Kampf and Mao's little red book deserve their spots, but thorough reading of Das Kapital explains quite tho
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Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries
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