The Villages Tea Party - On The Road with Aileen
Feb 19th we visited and filmed the Las Cruces Tea Party with Kelly O'Connell speaking on the subject of John Dewey and the American Education
Feb 19th we visited and filmed the Las Cruces Tea Party with Kelly O'Connell speaking on the subject of John Dewey and the American Education
Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 6:30 PM at the Mountain View Christian Church at 241 Three Crosses Ave. Las Cruces, NM
Speaker for the hour, Kelly O Connell. He is an author and attorney. He was born on the West Coast, raised in Las Vegas, and matriculated from the University of Oregon. After laboring for the Reformed Church in Galway, Ireland, he returned to America and attended law school in Virginia, where he earned a JD and a Master's degree in Government. He spent a stint working as a researcher and writer of academic articles at a Miami law school, focusing on ancient law and society. He has also been employed as a university Speech & Debate professor. He then returned
West and worked as an assistant district attorney. Kelly is now a private practitioner with a small law practice in New Mexico. Kelly is also host of a daily, Monday to Friday talk show at AM KOBE 1450.
Excerpts from "John Dewey: Bosom Serpent of American Education" By Kelly O Connell
The American education system is built from a model designed by Dewey, one which rejected the classics, any emphasis on rhetoric and logic, or rote memorization. Instead, the pragmatist Dewey valued experience over facts, logic or debate. In fact, the deeply progressive and anti-traditional Dewey held Marxist presuppositions.
So Dewey wanted to replace traditional, rigorous academics with the progressive agenda used everywhere in public schools today. John Dewey wrote, "My Pedagogic Creed, which reveals how he exchanges experiences for traditional education.
Article One. What Education Is
I believe that all education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race....
I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself...
For more information on the Las Cruces Tea Party, Contact Bev Courtney, Pres. [email protected] or Chuck Wendler, VP 915-479-3337/[email protected]
http://www.lcteaparty.org
Speaker for the hour, Kelly O Connell. He is an author and attorney. He was born on the West Coast, raised in Las Vegas, and matriculated from the University of Oregon. After laboring for the Reformed Church in Galway, Ireland, he returned to America and attended law school in Virginia, where he earned a JD and a Master's degree in Government. He spent a stint working as a researcher and writer of academic articles at a Miami law school, focusing on ancient law and society. He has also been employed as a university Speech & Debate professor. He then returned
West and worked as an assistant district attorney. Kelly is now a private practitioner with a small law practice in New Mexico. Kelly is also host of a daily, Monday to Friday talk show at AM KOBE 1450.
Excerpts from "John Dewey: Bosom Serpent of American Education" By Kelly O Connell
The American education system is built from a model designed by Dewey, one which rejected the classics, any emphasis on rhetoric and logic, or rote memorization. Instead, the pragmatist Dewey valued experience over facts, logic or debate. In fact, the deeply progressive and anti-traditional Dewey held Marxist presuppositions.
So Dewey wanted to replace traditional, rigorous academics with the progressive agenda used everywhere in public schools today. John Dewey wrote, "My Pedagogic Creed, which reveals how he exchanges experiences for traditional education.
Article One. What Education Is
I believe that all education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race....
I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself...
For more information on the Las Cruces Tea Party, Contact Bev Courtney, Pres. [email protected] or Chuck Wendler, VP 915-479-3337/[email protected]
http://www.lcteaparty.org
