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John Dewey & Food: Linking School to the Lives of Our Youth

DEWEY & EXPERIENCE In “Experience and Education” John Dewey opens discussing the “organic connection between education and personal experience.”  He goes on to explain “that does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative… everything depends on the … Continue reading

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Crap-Detecting & Creativity: An opportunity for Asbury Park

“A built-in, shock-proof, crap detector.” That was Ernest Hemingway’s response  when asked if there were one quality needed, above all others, to be a good writer.  Neil Postman took that line and proposed it as the best thing schools can … Continue reading

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