People who experiment on children: John Dewey
Yes, that is, the best educational theorists of our time would not have found out what there is to know about childhood development, if it wasn't for the availability of a group of children on which to experiment. Here are two big names who, pretty much, owe their brilliance to their ability to impinge their crazy ideas notions on a bunch of innocent children. Thankfully, it all turned out rather well. John Dewey (1859 to 1950) Here is a philosopher, who engaged, full throttle, with the state of the modern world and tried, as many educational theorists do, to establish exactly what would makes a good education for the modern child. The schooling of the late 19th Century were not fit for the era of baby boomers, pop art and a new kind of economic prosperity in America. He believed that education should produce children who are 'active and creative'. He also believed that schooling should be linked to the real world. The more it was, the more motivated children would b...