Saturday, July 7, 2007

Observe with accuracy; name in fear


His decency and his thoughts of love be
damned again;
his thoughts of the young and his gifts of
understanding
do not matter. His legacy was a threat of
change, and change

is a matter to fear. John Dewey walked the
streets of American
education and tried to make some sense of
the cluttered
slums of our dreams. Great as America was
and wide

as her dream, he saw the slipping and felt
the rumble of
the ignorant. Now we talk about him in books
not in awe
but in argument. Little men in big jobs
use the microscope

of research to keep down reason as you would
fight off a
wild dog. Do not talk of Dewey only talk of
the last small
look at next to nothing and measure it very
carefully.

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