The Fundamental Errors of 'Progressivism' in Education

By DAVID GLENN

North American elementary and secondary schools are based on premises "that have been wrong from the beginning and haven't become any less wrong for a century's reiteration." So argues Kieran Egan, a professor of education at Simon Fraser University, in Getting It Wrong From the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance From Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget (Yale University Press). Those scholars, Mr. Egan charges, drew upon flimsy Rousseauian metaphors that imagine the child's

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