1857. "'The NEA...started out in 1857 as the National Teachers Association founded by forty-three educators in Philadelphia. Now the largest educational association in the world, the National Teachers Association was founded 'to elevate the character and advance the interest of the teaching profession, and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States." It "didn't allow men who taught in private schools to be members."[5] University of Notre Dame
1870. The National Teachers Association merged with the National Association of School Superintendents and the American Normal School Association to become known as the NEA. Membership was broadened to include "any person in any way connected with the world of education."[2] Sam Blumenfeld, page 20. The broad range of special interests and social goals within the membership led to the creation of numerous departments within the NEA -- and later to countless organizational spin-offs that shared the NEA philosophy.
1908. John Dewey's article, "Religion and our Schools" was published in The Hibbert Journal (July). He states, "Our schools ... are performing an infinitely significant religious work. They are promoting the social unity out of which in the end genuine religious unity must grow. ...dogmatic beliefs... we see.. disappearing....
"It is the part of men to... work for the transformation of all practical instrumentalities of education till they are in harmony with these ideas." [1] Cuddy, page 11.
1916. John Dewey is recognized as the leader of the "progressive educators.' In Democracy and Education, he wrote, "There is always a danger that increased personal independence will decrease the social capacity of an individual.... It often makes an individual so insensitive in his relations to others as to develop an illusion of being really able to stand and act alone--an unnamed from of insanity which is responsible for a large part of the remedial suffering of the world." [1] Cuddy, 13. See also The Re-establishment of Peacetime Society
1921. The Psychological Corporation ("concerned with... promoting the extension of applied psychology....") was founded with "progressive educators" such as G. Stanley Hall, Edward Thorndike and other 'Deweyites' as Directors. [1] Cuddy, 15.
1932. John Dewey became honorary president of the NEA. [1] Cuddy, page 17.
1933. John Dewey co-authored the first Humanist Manifesto. It called for a "synthesizing of all religions" and a socialized and cooperative economic order." [1] Cuddy, page 18.
1950s. "Progressive educators (largely for Teachers College) had obtained key positions in Colleges of Education and as school superintendents and principals around the nation from which they could appoint teachers to their liking." [1] Cuddy, page 1.
1952. In the Congressional Record, Senator William Jenners stated, "This war against our Constitution ... is being fought here... in our schools... colleges... churches... women's clubs. It is being fought with our money, channeled through the State Department. It is being fought 24 hours a day.... while we remain asleep.... The UN is at work... every day and night, changing the teachers, changing the teaching materials, changing the very words and tones--changing all the essential ideas which we imagine our schools are teaching to our young folks." Sally Reed, NEA: Propaganda Front of the Radical Left."[15]
1960. "William F. Warde, in an article on "John Dewey's Theories of Education (published in the INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST REVIEW, Winter, 1960, issue) wrote: "The Progressive Education Association, inspired by Dewey's ideas, later codified his doctrines as follows:
1. The conduct of the pupils shall be governed by themselves, according to the social needs of the community.
2. Interest shall be the motive for all work.
3. Teachers will... serve as guides... rather than as task-masters.
4. Scientific study of each pupil's development, physical, mental, social and spiritual, is absolutely essential to the intelligent direction of his development.
5. Greater attention is paid to the child's physical needs....
6. Cooperation between school and home will fill all needs of the child's development such as music, dancing, play and other extra-curricular activities.
7. All progressive schools will look upon their work as of the laboratory type, giving freely to the sum of educational knowledge the results of their experiments in child culture."[5] The Dan Smoot Report
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John Dewey & his disciples Part 3: TBC
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