Remember John Dewey? You know, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System? In the
nineteenth century, he led a utopian crusade to reform American education.
Good education, he thought, would promote progress and cure social ills.
The funny thing is, his reforms were implemented.
clue:
The Dewey Decimal System was actually invented by Melvil Dewey in the 1870’s.
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