Progressive Reconstruction of Education

All schools exist to educate human beings for today and for the next sixty or eighty years of life. The starting-point is the present, which, as far as knowledge is concerned, can be illumined only by the past. This is avowedly a subject matter approach, but it is not the traditional subject matter approach. One of the first steps in reconstructing education for today and tomorrow is the assembling of materials that are pertinent to the present and future.