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“America is reaping the consequences of the destruction of traditional education by the Dewey-Kilpatrick experimentalist philosophy…Dewey’s ideas have led to elimination of many academic subjects on the grounds that they would not be useful in life…The student thus receives neither intellectual training nor the factual knowledge which will help him understand the world he lives in, or to make well-reasoned decisions in his private life or as a responsible citizen.” -- Admiral Hyman Rickover [The Tablet, August 11, 1959]John Dewey, an educational philosopher, first applied his experimental philosophies in a model school at the University of Chicago prior to 1900...

A researcher has revealed some disturbing trends regarding the sets of beliefs Christian students in public schools have about the most important issues in life. Dan Smithwick is the founder and president of the Nehemiah Institute, a group that provides a biblical worldview testing and training service to Christian educators. He is the developer of what is called the "PEERS test," a tool to assess the worldviews of young people, and says the majority of public school students from evangelical Christian homes consistently score in the "socialist" category on the test. According to Smithwick, this outcome should come as no...

John Dewey's PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION is one of the three philosophies that has plagued American culture ever since the 1930's. (The other two are Sigmund Freud's PHYCHOANALYSIS and Charles Darwin's EVOLUTION.) It has taken over public schools, and has grown to such an extent that people don't even think about it anymore, it's just accepted. But has it really worked? Progressive Education main points are: Everybody is a contributer to society, the child is the main focus, independence is crucial to education, frequent use of hands-on activities, and diversity in the classroom, to name a few. Dewey believed that the purpose...

Old Glory drapes Columbia University freshman Alexandra Draggett, from Basking Ridge, N.J., and Greg Jones, a sophomore from Englewood, N.J., yesterday at demonstration in front of school's Low LibraryStudents at Columbia University rallied yesterday to support U.S. soldiers in Iraq and blasted a controversial professor who called for the slaughter of coalition troops. Speakers addressing about 250 people, who wore yellow ribbons and waved flags, ripped assistant professor Nicholas De Genova at the rally, at the school's Low Library. De Genova, at an anti-war "teach-in" last week, said he "would like to see a million Mogadishus" - a reference to...

THE FATHER OF MODERN EDUCATION John Dewey is recognized as the Father of modern education. The N.E.A. gave him high recognition for his works. All he did was made possible by the theory of evolution being so strongly accepted after the writings of Charles Darwin. John Dewey wrote a theory of education and democracy that was based on evolution. The education theories of Dewey would not have been so acceptable to people had it not been for the previous acceptance of Darwin's Theory of Evolution.That theory was widely received around the world. Evolution praises change and declares the highest good...

John Dewey Lecture "I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. All reforms which rest simply upon the law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and futile.... But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.... Education thus conceived marks the most perfect and intimate union of science and art conceivable in human experience." --John Dewey, My Pedagogic Creed, 1897