"Students were asked to copy facts from a sheet of paper... to another sheet of paper." That is still what is considered as learning in some quarters. We have learned a lot since Dewey, but what we have learned - what Freire would call an action-based problem-centred theory of learning - is opposed as progressive nonsense by some advocates - advocates who have, mostly, carried the day. "From children in the 1st grade to adults in their first years of college, you can observe students sitting passively in their plastic molded desks, textbooks in hand, listening to the rants of the wise teacher or professor at the front of the room."
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