Dewey did not stop teaching in Oil City because he didn't want to work with "children". In 1881 he just finished up "The Metaphysical Assumptions of Materialism" and moved back to Burlington to aid publication of his essay, while in VT, he went back to teach at another high-school. So, it's my contention that he clearly wasn't running away from teaching young adults.
BTW... I'm taking Philosophy of Art this semester (it fills my art history minor) and I really liked this video. We've read Collingwood and Langer so far and we are just now starting on Dewey. I've always liked what Dewey had to say about education and it's interesting to find out that he could not handle working with small children. I'll have to look for into that. It seems as though he broadened his horizons going from the education of education to the education of art. Very neat.
"An angler may eat his catch without thereby losing the esthetic satisfaction he experienced in casting and playing. It is this degree of completeness of living in the experience of making and of perceiving the making the difference between what is fine or esthetic in art and what is not." -John Dewey, _Art as Experience_
Dewey did not stop teaching in Oil City because he didn't want to work with "children". In 1881 he just finished up "The Metaphysical Assumptions of Materialism" and moved back to Burlington to aid publication of his essay, while in VT, he went back to teach at another high-school. So, it's my contention that he clearly wasn't running away from teaching young adults.
sicof065 4 months ago
BTW... I'm taking Philosophy of Art this semester (it fills my art history minor) and I really liked this video. We've read Collingwood and Langer so far and we are just now starting on Dewey. I've always liked what Dewey had to say about education and it's interesting to find out that he could not handle working with small children. I'll have to look for into that. It seems as though he broadened his horizons going from the education of education to the education of art. Very neat.
cookiesonsteve 1 year ago
"An angler may eat his catch without thereby losing the esthetic satisfaction he experienced in casting and playing. It is this degree of completeness of living in the experience of making and of perceiving the making the difference between what is fine or esthetic in art and what is not." -John Dewey, _Art as Experience_
cookiesonsteve 1 year ago