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anti-intellectualism antagonism to learning, education, and the educated, expressed in literature in a conscious display of simplicity, earthiness, even colorful semi-literacy. — anti-intellectual, n., adj. See also: Learningantagonism to learning, education, and the educated, expressed in literature in a conscious display of simplicity, earthiness, even colorful semi-literacy. — anti-intellectual, n., adj. See also: Knowledge |
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The effect of John Dewey's philosophy on the design of curricular systems was devastating," Richard Hofstadter wrote nearly 50 years ago in Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. At the time that Carus got his inspiration, the public schools were thoroughly infested by a deeply rooted spirit of anti-intellectualism. Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism In American Life (New York, 1966), 17. |
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