“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...