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MY TURN: The flaw in education

by JOHN JENSEN/Guest Opinion
| May 15, 2025 1:00 AM

The acknowledged difficulties in education state-wide and nationally may seem impossibly complex, but most are from a fundamental choice gone wrong.

In the early 1900s, European educators were trying ways to improve their system. John Dewey brought many ideas to the U.S., but among their positive features was a fatal flaw noted in Dewey’s 1916 book Democracy and Education (available online):

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