ABSTRACT
It has been one of the disastrous features of education in America during the pragmatic era that our teachers have been taught to know Dewey, not in terms of his theories but in terms of his war cries. Practically all they hear about them is that the pragmatic logic has refuted, once for all, some strange and old-fashioned ideas. The animus of pragmatic education has been directed against Victorianism. The ruling passion of the pragmatic movement finds its best expression. Pragmatism has not, in popular terms, given us a positive alternative for the Victorianism which it has attacked. Now there can be no doubt that, as against this prevailing aristocracy, pragmatism has raised, or has joined in raising, the battle cry of democracy. As against a Victorian foe who has known the necessity of keeping the agencies of learning and of teaching under his control the pragmatic war cry against useless knowledge is a gallant but largely futile gesture.
