Education in the U.S. is imploding.  The Horatio Alger ideals of education depicting the conditions for successful fulfillment of one's ambitions have been superseded by the ideas and ideals of John Dewey.  His ideals enunciated in School and Society and in A Common Faith suggest the replacement of self-conscious, ambitious individuality with the replacement of a highly socialized citizen whose "faith" is in democracy and working together with others as a useful citizen.  The great books curricula, popular in the 1890s, was debunked.  Despite his romanticization of socialistic concepts (hidden behind the word "democracy," a tactic not unlike that of Sen. Bernie Sanders), his views represent an attack on the individual, the family, and the foundation of America in Judeo-Christian values. For millions, school today is simply a developmental requirement with its institutional mores and...(Read Full Article)