In my earlier Blog I said that if Diane Ravitch had read George Santayana’s Reason in Common Sense she wouldn’t have written her most recent book, The Death and Life of the American School System. Here is why I said that. Santayana in the passage quoted, says this: Progress, far from consisting in change, depends [...]
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March 10, 2010Reason and Common Sense, One
March 10, 2010There are many who say things better than I do. It seems to me that I’ve known that forever, and have a long ingrained habit of keeping the thoughts and words of others that I most admire in several thousand books on my library shelves where I can look at them, read the spines, be [...]
