...that the schools both of the old and new world are adapted almost exclusively for passive listening. " Just as the biologist can take a bone or two and reconstruct...there shall be as little moving room as possible, desks almost of the same size with just space enough to hold books, pencils, and papers and add a table,...

...remark : " I am afraid we have not what you want. You want something at which the children may work ; these are all for listening." That tells the story...there shall be as little moving room as possible, desks almost all of the same size, with just space enough to hold books, pencils and paper, and add...

...the great premium put upon listening, reading, and the reproduction of what is told or read. ". . . if we put before the mind's eye the ordinary school-room,...there shall be as little moving room as possible, desks almost all of the same size, with just space enough to hold books, pencils and paper, and add...

...class-rooms, however, answer to Prof. Dewey's melancholy description. " Just as the biologist," he says,1 " can take a bone or two and reconstruct the whole animal,...there shall be as little moving room as possible, desks almost all of the same size, with just space enough to hold book's, pencils and paper, and add...

...century. John Dewey envisioned needed reform when he described the ordinary classroom in 1900: . . . with Its rows of ugly desks placed in geometrical...there shall be as little moving room as possible, desks almost all of the same size, with just enough space to hold books." Blackboards and Slates Blackboards...

...century. John Dewey envisioned needed reform when he described the ordinary classroom in 1900: . . . with its rows of ugly desks placed in geometrical order, crowded together so that there shell be as little moving room as possible, desks almost all of the same size, with just enough space...

...schemes of classification, of examination and promotion, of rules of order" (EE, 18), and arranged with its rows of ugly desks placed in geometrical...crowded together so that there shall be as little moving as possible, desks almost all of the same size, with just space enough to hold books, pencils, and...

...want. You want something at which the children may work; these are all for listening." Dewey commented: That tells the story of the traditional education....there shall be as little moving room as possible, desks almost all of the same size, with just space enough to hold book, pencils, and paper, and add...

...description of the traditional schoolroom, where his attitude to the spectator theory is crystal clear: Just as the biologist can take a bone or two and reconstruct...that there shall be as little moving room as possible . . . and add a table, some chairs, the bare walls, and possibly a few pictures, we can reconstruct...

...but through the fear of failure and desire for promotion. Everyone recognized the typical classroom with "its rows of ugly desks placed in geometrical...there shall be as little moving room as possible, desks almost all of the same size, with just space enough to hold books, paper, and pencils." Local...