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In this regard John Dewey and Hutchins were in agreement.

Hutchins's book The Higher Learning in America deplored the " plight of higher learning " that had turned away from cultivation of the intellect and toward anti-intellectual practicality due in part, to a lust for money.

In a highly negative review of the book, Dewey wrote a series of articles in The Social Frontier which began by applauding Hutchins ' attack on " the aimlessness of our present educational scheme.