[MasterGunner01]

The two biggest losers to market “public education” for the masses were Horace Mann and John Dewey at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Both were enthralled with the Prussian model of state education. Education in Prussia was designed to identify a small cadre of governing elites and to provide enough semi-educated fodder for Germany's expanding industrial base. The product of this educational system was literate enough to function, but had no concept of critical thinking. The masses were sheep to be led by the elite shepherds — all products of “public education”. Neither Mann nor Dewey could have foreseen the “dumbing down” of the educated product produced by teacher's unions that is not usable for anything.

[YHAOS]

“The two biggest losers to market “public education” for the masses were Horace Mann and John Dewey”

Into the Fifties and Sixties (and later, I’m sure), most of the US “Liberal Arts” colleges trumpeted Mann and Dewey (especially Dewey - if anything Mann was an afterthought) as the two great mavens of “Public Education” (which is to say State “education”), or State Information and Propaganda (to put it more accurately).

Thanks Progressing America, for the Beep!

[Jack Hydrazine]

“Neither Mann nor Dewey could have foreseen the “dumbing down” of the educated product produced by teacher’s unions that is not usable for anything.”

I’d have to disagree with you on that. The abhorred the education system in America because it worked so well and wanted their ideas used to destroy it.