one of them was john dewey. one of them was john do we. a founder of american public education and probably the single greatest influence on american public schools to this day. is books have been used for 100 years now to trained generation after generation of public-school teachers. columbia teachers college or departments of education, this guy's books are like sacred scripture in some departments of education. did you know this? i didn't know this until i speak -- never learned about this when i learned about do we. do we's books were being rapidly translated into russian by the bolsheviks as early as 1918. the bolsheviks took over in october 1917. you immediately get a vicious civil war until 1921. the russian historian says seven million men, women and children died. told -- bolsheviks were preoccupied but they realized how important john dewey's work work to the soviet collective state they were trying to create so they immediately started translating him. 1918 john dewey's schools of tomorrow published in russian. 1919, how we thin

john dewey. john dewey come on the include another group i called the tympan progresses and these were people in the 1920's and 30's, american progressives, western progressives, british as well as american, who were taken to the soviet union in the 1920's and 1930's and very carefully manipulated by soviet handlers. it's extraordinary to see how they did this. it's shocking. and it's shocking to see how many took the bait as well. and because the woodrow wilson administration wouldn't recognize the bolsheviks, because the early british government wouldn't recognize the bolsheviks, winston churchill told boy george you might as well recognize sodomy before you recognize the bolsheviks. the progressives were upset by that in the 20's. so stalin and the late 1920's started bringing american western progressives to the soviet union to take a carefully managed to work to try to get them to come back to the united states and write articles about how great the soviet union is and they are finding this

i thought of politics and prose as a combination of so wilensky, walt whitman, john dewey, a little ofvotee, and not quinoline and a lot of other fine novelists all added into the mix. carla believed, as you all know in democracy and she knew citizens and not proceed had the right to know what they were talking about which is in a sense with this organization we are at this bookstore is devoted to. she would also let them know what she didn't think they knew what they were talking about what she believed in real or which would happen at the podium all the time between the first standing up there and the people in the audience this and it is what passes for arguments these days. i was thinking about carla and one of my favorite essays which is by the historian christopher and it's called the lost art of documents and in real argument he said we have to enter imaginatively into our opponents' arguments if only for the purpose of refuting them and we may end up being persuaded by those we sought to persuade. now david can tell us how often that actually happened with carla, but nonetheles

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