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Hyman Rickover

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Noun1.Hyman Rickover - United States admiral who advocated the development of nuclear submarines (1900-1986)


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It is a long leap, however, to assume that if critics of progressive education such as Isaac Kandel, William Bagley, Hyman Rickover and Arthur Bestor had been triumphant, public education would have produced schools like Dalton, or like Dewey's Laboratory School at the University of Chicago.
The figure whose life and career makes the strongest case for how an iron will can prevail over institutional inertia is Hyman Rickover.
During that period he was selected by Admiral Hyman Rickover to be his representative in contract administration and negotiation issues involving design and construction contracts for nuclear powered ships and submarines.
 
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