How did American educational philosophy come to be so opposed to academic achievement? That is the heart of Zoch’s book, in which he describes the transition from education requiring disciplined ...

Progressive education has many of the same goals as Self-Directed Education, and its advocates use much of the same language, but the foundational philosophy is quite different and the methodology ...

If you are a Progressive in the political sense of the word, here is the philosophy you subscribe to. If you think about public education, you think like John Dewey, the father of a progressive ...

The theory of progressive education, which became dominate in schools and universities in the mid-twentieth century, revolutionized the American educational system. Subjects like literature ...

The progressive education philosophy is a depressingly instrumentalist one where education is mistaken for training. It focuses on supposedly generic, 21st-century skills ...

Education: Old-Fashioned Progressive. 4 minute read. ... Headmaster Smith has spanned the whole history of the American progressive ... but he also refused to follow the free-for-all philosophy of ...

That initiative gave way to the increasingly popular progressive education-reform movement, which preached that a deeper understanding of math wasn’t practical for most Americans—that the way ...

It can be risky to look to other countries’ education systems for models. Nevertheless, two recent news stories from abroad raise doubts about prevailing American views on how students learn.

Self-Directed Education, not progressive education, is the wave of the future. Skip to main content Mobile Navigation. Psychology Today. Find Counselling. Find a Therapist. Counsellors.