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Freedom in John Dewey's Philosophy of Education

In March 1976, Fred M. Hechinger warned that America was in "headlong retreat" from its commitment to education. On the right, conservatives were renewing their attacks on universal education; and on the left, radicals were denouncing American schools as evil tools of capitalism.1 Hechinger also noted that a Harris poll taken in 1972 showed that the proportion of Americans who professed "a good deal of confidence" in education had declined from sixty-one percent in 1966 to thirty percent in 1972.2 Hechinger was understandably alarmed. "In this Bicentennial year," he exclaimed, "no other objective seems more urgent than helping the American people regain their faith in education. The incentive to do so is elemental: to prevent the decline and fall of American democracy."3