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Freedom & Responsibility. The son of a Chicago realtor, Smith joined the progressive movement early. After five years at the Louis Nettelhorst Public School ("We did everything by the numbers-opening desks, closing desks, picking up pencils"), he was enrolled with two of his brothers as one of the first pupils in Colonel Parker's experimental Chicago Institute. There Parker preached a doctrine of "freedom with a balancing responsibility" and of learning from actual materials as well as from books. In spite of the fact that Smith went on to the orthodox Hill School of Pottstown...
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