“A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.”
Max Eastman

[an historic left liberal, John] Dewey actually had no trust in or loyalty to existing democratic institutions that affected schools, such as school boards or elections of public officials. And as his complimentary 1928 comments on what he saw in Communist Russia indicate, he had no commitment to the rights or virtues of traditional families either.
Henry T. Edmondson III
(as paraphrased by M.D. Aeschliman in his review of John Dewey and the Decline of American Education.)

The “child centered school” has helped give birth to an infantile culture—one that threatens the very capacity of the American republic to retain and convey its economic accomplishments, social decencies, and civic self-understanding.
Ditto Edmondson/Aeschliman