1920's Education | "A Statement of the Principles of Progressive Education"

Journal article

By: The Progressive Education Association

Date: April 1924

Source: "A Statement of the Principles of Progressive Education." Progressive Education 1, no. 1, April 1924, p. 2. Reprinted in Readings in American Educational History. Edgar W. Knight and Clifton L. Hall, eds. New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1951, 528–529.

About the Author: Eugene Randolph Smith (1876–?), one of the founding members of the Progressive Education Association, graduated from Syracuse University, where he taught mathematics. He also taught in public schools and in Brooklyn Polytechnic High School. In 1912, he was asked to organize the Park School in Baltimore. Subsequently, Smith was appointed headmaster of the Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Introduction

The progressive education movement, begun during the late nineteenth...