ABSTRACT
The boast of the humanitarian era, extending over the past century or more, is that it has effected a fundamental change in the methods and purposes of education. The favored system is called progressive education. Any exact definition may be challenged, because the advocates of this system have never given an exact definition; but let it be described in the most amiable terms, open to correction. Say that progressive education seeks to make schooling a pleasurable experience ; it forbids positive punishment; aims at once to encourage self- expression in the youngest children and social-mindedness in older pupils; and that it claims to teach the child to think by experimental projects and by presenting debatable current topics for general discussion, without dogmatic principles.
