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The opponents of social reconstructionism often found sympathy for their criticisms from social reconstructionists themselves. John Dewey repeatedly condemned reconstructionists who took an overly romantic view of child-centered education. To Dewey children's innate curiosity and willingness to learn was unfocused and chaotic; it needed guidance and direction from teachers. According to Dewey, the educator who made a dogma of educational freedom and waited for the children to, in essence, teach themselves "misconceives the conditions of independent thinking." Dewey and many other reconstructionists were also opposed to the use of political indoctrination in the classroom. Some reconstructionists, including Counts, Thomas H. Briggs, and Charles C. Peters of Pennsylvania State College had maintained that all instruction was a form of indoctrination and that reconstructionists should simply make overt and political a practice that had always been implicit in education. "Why should not high school students have emotionalized...
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