http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/20/opinion/oe-bickman20
This article was published in the Opinion section of the LA Times in 2004. I just thought it was interesting because in class we had talked about how we have all done group projects/team building activities during our education and we have John Dewey to thank for that. The author, Martin Bickman, argues Dewey's ideas writing, "Experience without concepts is shallow and stagnant; similarly, concepts without immediate connections to experience are inert and useless." He goes on to write, "The choice is still ours to break this cycle of breaking the cycle, of setting the child against the curriculum, of experience against symbols, and to integrate these “opposites” into a truly mindful education." just like Dewey once realized.
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I agree with the writer of this article that there needs to be more dialogue between both ends of the educational spectrum - rather than pitting one extreme against the other, in which one group advocates for traditional "stick to the curriculum/textbook" teaching methods, while the other side wishes to focus more on the processes of learning, both sides need to work together to build bridges and integrate the positives of each method in order to improve the educational system as a whole. Because ultimately, as the article suggests, it is the fragmentation of these opposing views that prevent education in America from progressing.
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