Some historians and critics believe Dewey was more interested in adapting children to a state dominated society than to true education. They believed he modeled an American classroom that diminished the teaching of the classics, rejected the teachings of logic and rhetoric and preferred experience over debate.
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John Dewey
Dewey commanded a U.S. fleet that destroyed the Spanish fleet in the Philippines.
"You may fire when you are ready Gridley."Commodore George Dewey, 1 May 1898, at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. The American squadron entered Manila Bay and took fire from the Spanish fleet, anchored under the guns of Cavite, for half an hour until in the position Dewey wanted. Then Dewey addressed his order to Charles Gridley, captain of Dewey's flagship Olympia.[Dewey, George. Autobiography of George Dewey, Admiral of the Navy. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913) 214.]http://www.history.navy.mil/trivia/trivia02.htm
George Dewey
Commodore George Dewey.