Word: essentialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editors take no sides between Progressive educators (TIME, July 5) and their Essentialist opponents (TIME, Sept. 13), print articles by leaders of both camps. Sample topics: educational goals and incentives, the project method, temper tantrums, audio-visual aids, the elective system, the Chicago Plan, aeronautical education...
...Essentialist chairman was talking strongly out of school. Wrote Fred Alden Shaw, founder-headmaster of the flourishing Detroit Country Day School, in School & Society...
...These are heydays for the Essentialists, for hardly a week passes without a dart being cast at Progressive doctrines. Now it is J. Edgar Hoover commenting on child delinquency; now it is an admiral complaining about inadequate preparation in mathematics. . . . The public is now Essentialist-minded. [Its] attitude . . . has been largely formulated in the fiery furnace of war. . . . Now there is the danger that the public will swing too far. . . Progressive education . . . proclaimed that traditional education had become a ritual ... a mold into which the enthusiasm and idealism of youth were poured with unfortunate results...