Learn through history

As I read Schooled to Order I’m getting very upset. I want to go back to the 1860s and shake up the reformers! Why is it that we always seem to blame the poor? John Dewey who considered himself a Socialist at the time surprised me. Suddenly Dewey’s progressive schooling ideas seemed less innovative and more like a trade school. Training to buck up and listen to the man.“When the school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the deepest and best guaranty of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmonious.” (Nasaw, 103) Yet, Dewey was aware of why the workers were so fed up with working conditions. I suppose he just wanted to make it peaceful instead of imposing radical changes to the industrial times.