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→History of Progressive Education: Progressive education may have gone even further back than John Dewey, if The Blaze is of any indication.
Progressives have a very long history of using the schools as a vehicle to advance their agenda. Going as far back as the turn of the 20th century, leaders such as [[John Dewey]] have subverted the educational system to achieve specific ends. [[Woodrow Wilson]], for example, said the following in 1909:
Progressives have a very long history of using the schools as a vehicle to advance their agenda. Going as far back as the turn of the 20th century, leaders such as [[John Dewey]] have subverted the educational system to achieve specific ends. [[Woodrow Wilson]], for example, said the following in 1909:
<blockquote>The purpose of a university should be to make a son as unlike his father as possible. By the time a man has grown old enough to have a son in college he has specialized. The university should generalize the treatment of its undergraduates, should struggle to put them in touch with every force of life. Every man of established success is dangerous to society. His tendency is to keep society as it is. His success has been founded upon it. You will not find many reformers among the successful men. A man told me once that he left college interested in humanity. At 40 he was interested only in an industry to which he had applied himself. At 60 he was interested only in his bank account. Any social change affects that bank account. Society cannot progress without change.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Link|first1=Arthur S.|title=The papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 19|date=1975|publisher=Princeton University Press}}</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=fpk8AAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+purpose+of+a+university+should+be+to+make+a+son+as+unlike+his+father+as+possible.%22&dq=%22The+purpose+of+a+university+should+be+to+make+a+son+as+unlike+his+father+as+possible.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I136VOP8J4O_ggSr9oPoDg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA Retrieved March-6-15</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>The purpose of a university should be to make a son as unlike his father as possible. By the time a man has grown old enough to have a son in college he has specialized. The university should generalize the treatment of its undergraduates, should struggle to put them in touch with every force of life. Every man of established success is dangerous to society. His tendency is to keep society as it is. His success has been founded upon it. You will not find many reformers among the successful men. A man told me once that he left college interested in humanity. At 40 he was interested only in an industry to which he had applied himself. At 60 he was interested only in his bank account. Any social change affects that bank account. Society cannot progress without change.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Link|first1=Arthur S.|title=The papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 19|date=1975|publisher=Princeton University Press}}</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=fpk8AAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+purpose+of+a+university+should+be+to+make+a+son+as+unlike+his+father+as+possible.%22&dq=%22The+purpose+of+a+university+should+be+to+make+a+son+as+unlike+his+father+as+possible.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I136VOP8J4O_ggSr9oPoDg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA Retrieved March-6-15</ref></blockquote>
The Blaze has also speculated that progressive education may have even had its roots as early as 1865 at least, possibly as early as the early 1800s due to America using European graduate schools to compensate the lack of their own during the time they had been adopting radical philosophies from [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]], [[Benedict de Spinoza]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]], [[David Friedrich Strauss|D. F. Strauss]], [[Karl Marx]], [[Charles Darwin]], Spencer, and [[Auguste Comte]], among others.<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/contributions/why-liberals-think-being-educated-means-being-liberal</ref>
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