Just in time for curriculum evenings …

The world is moving at a tremendous rate. Going no one knows where. We must prepare our children, not for the world of the past. Not for our world. But for their world. The world of the future. – John Dewey (seen saying just that in the film below)
Progressive education in the 1940s: I don’t know who made this short film but it certainly raises some good discussion points for 2007. And it starts with a skeptical question at a parent-teacher meeting.
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