Hitherto I have intentionally spoken not of progressivism in education, but of something still broader and more inclusive which I prefer to call “the new education.” The new education represented the elaboration of certain progressive principles into a creed, the attempt to make inclusive claims for their applicability in a system of mass education, their extension from experimental work largely with very young children into a schematism for public education at all ages, and finally the development of an attack upon the organized curriculum and liberal education under the rubric of
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