[MD] New Book on Pirsig

[Arlo J. Bensinger]

[Matt]
There's a new book going to be released in September on Pirsig called "John
Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living : Revisioning Aesthetic Education"
by David A. Granger.

[Arlo]
Yes, this looks to be good. That I am an admirer of Dewey can be seen at once in
this description of his philosophy from Wikipedia.

"[Dewey] saw Rousseau's as overemphasizing the individual and Plato's as
overemphasizing the society in which the individual lived. For Dewey, this
distinction was by and large a false one; like Vygotsky, he viewed the mind and
its formation as communal process. Thus the individual is only a meaningful
concept when regarded as an inextricable part of his or her society, and the
society has no meaning apart from its realization in the lives of its
individual members."

Ah, what I've been saying all along. At any rate, yes, to use the overhyped
phrase from the consumerist media, this may be the first "must read" book of
the fall.

Arlo

Also from Wikipedia, "The most basic idea of John Dewey's with regard to
education was that greater emphasis should be placed on the broadening of
intellect and development of problem solving and critical thinking skills,
rather than simply on the memorization of lessons."

Critical thinking skills... imagine that.