John Dewey is VERY complex. Some people take complexity as a sign of "brilliance" or "genius". It should be taken more as a severe inability to look out, observe and benefit from the fruits of one's own observations, and in the place of these erupt unusual concepts, vague conceptualizations, misplacement of importances, exaggeration of significance, and "ivory-tower" theorizing which sounds just all too good too much of the time, but in fact, cannot be successfully applied without poor results. He's a fool parading as a "genius" and "social savior". He has never been and never will be either - despite what his followers claim.

This book goes through Dewey's various ideas and approaches to education. Read it with the viewpoint of understanding where exactly modern education went wrong.