Re: New Kozloff paper - 'If it Quacks Like a Duck, It's Probably Baloney'

In a message dated 04/10/2002 7:28:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:

<< One cavil: Kozloff talks about the past 30 years. This sounds
 like about the length of his own career to date. But I can
 remember my ex-schoolteacher mother voicing the same
 complaints about "progressive" education back in the '30s. I
 suspect 80 years would be a more accurate time frame for
 the kakocracy of education professors, education
 gurus, and education organizations >>

Who knows how far back it goes.  Some people trace it back
to Rousseau. It could have started in Aristotle's Lyceum
(which was predicated on principles and practices different
from Plato's Academy).

Bad educational practices always serve some purpose, usually
with respect to maintaining some socio-politico-economic
status quo power structure.

You are right, nevertheless, that in the modern era the kakocracy
had its major origins in the 1930s with the rise of Dewey and
the progressive education movement.