In a very recent entry Guy Dickinson Evan Orensky of participo notes our free access to Dewey's thoughts with regard to education. He quotes:

John Dewey's "My Pedagogic Creed". First published in 1897, and now available in the Archives at infed.org "I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty."

Guy Evan asks, rhetorically, how far we have come, since Dewey wrote those words, in living up to this duty.

In the same vein, I pose my own rhetorical question: If our paramount moral duty is to education, does militant and vigilant support of the High School football budget count as fulfillment of that duty?

Moments after/before Evan had slipped his ghostly critique on the table I had argued,

For the sake of clarity, here's my view of an Utopian [="fulfilling the paramount duty"] Educational Goal:

Education [as a societal institution] will have been shown to be effective in a deep sense; i.e., educators are generally effective in aiding each person to be in contact with self (actual and potential, alone and as a part of social and spiritual wholes) and the most powerful and necessary Idea for Becoming at this given moment in her/his existence.

I'm afraid we haven't come nearly far enough.