Logic

Dewey made considerable use of Logic in much the same way as theoreticians use statistics. Numbers can be construed or misconstrued depending on the idea of reality that one is attempting to reach. In much the same manner, Dewey developed a Logic of Asking that supported his contention that truth and reality were not necessarily the one and the same. Dewey made strong inroads in his attempt to break away from reality based philosophers like Descartes. I suppose for Dewey I think therefore I am can be amusingly hopeless. I can be and not think. I can think and if God am i. Dewey's abstract logic is by no means a retardant to his profound inroads in breaking educational psychology away from hopelessly accepting such silliness as I think therefore I am. The profundities of the realities are obvious. You are what? Let us not forget Dewey propelled educational psychologist into a new era of thought. Subjective realitivitism and Logic, keen insight into the human organism and its envionment. Necessary to the development of the human is his deep understanding of the non human elements of existence.

Problelmatic Truth

Dewey wrote on the human conception of truth. What we must consider before we pounce on the missing ribbed male is the philosophical extrapolation of truth. Are we asking if this color is pink and we hold up a pink shirt. No, my fellow mortals. Truth philosophically speaking dears excuse the familiarity , is the end result of a hypothesis. Is my theory that delving into coded genetic patterns of thought is as meaningless as postulating on the existence of God. My truth is this we learn through the layering of one outwardly imposed sensation after another. The end result may differ in that one layered can see the heavens and the other layered only the earth happens after the age of cognizance of the learning organism. Dewey dealt with his own end results, determining the validity of his postualte. He was not concerned with issues of morality or of whose good. If it works, do it again. His staunchest foe and friend was Bertrand Russell who relished a good sandwich in between his pot roast.

Dewey's Understanding of Learning Process

Does the infant arrive blazing streams of previous existence? does he arrive complete with coded messages imbedded in the same way as other genetic defined characteristics. Does an infant learn completely from sensory experience or does he wait for those imbedded information to be withdrawn by significant sensory stimulation. Is that why we read to our children, play with them and coax them to be humans and not chimps? Dewey unlike what some recent philsophers and child psychologists opine was not adamant on pre experience or post experience as an explanation of how we learn, he was adamant on the express need to continually question how we learn. The reasoning is really quite simple. Anyone can postulate and based on criteria can in some stages of human political existence go unchallenged. That abomination of freedom would put Dewey on the war path.

Determining conditions for human life

Can you imagine in 1907 and thereabouts a thinker like Dewey would be discussing the errors or "modern" educators. Most of us currently are entrapped into viewing our existence as having sprouted without any past and for some of us the thought of a future appears dim indeed. Today only matters for those who are caught in the shameless adventure of stealing. Tomorrow matters for those of us involved in the human development. Dewey like all philosophers was deeply enmeshed into the foundations of learning. The stages of developmental learning from infancy totality enrapped in sensation which abusers read in as sexually acting out to the formulation of thought often termed idealazation. Dewey rejected foundationalism in lay terms pre-existing layer of formulazation . His was the school of experience. Infancy reacts to sensation as any organism reacts to environmental stimulus. The ensuing stimulants build a coherent reaction to satisfy the budding organism. Some doubters would argue that the organism would have to know when to stand and walk. Simply put for Dewey the essence of education should be contingent on building an organisms confidence with do it again only if it worked the first time.