Diane Ravitch's book The Uncertain Crusade has an interesting chapter on the rise and decline of "progressive education." Dewey himself was not happy with all t

Diane Ravitch's book The Uncertain Crusade has an interesting chapter on the rise and decline of "progressive education." Dewey himself was not happy with all that went under that name. Based on the little I have read of Dewey, his model of a school demanded better and better-trained teachers than what it aimed to replace. However, given how vaguely he wrote, he could hardly blame others for misunderstanding.