To Pull out of Personal Education

     In fact, many of the current interpretations of the student-centered school management, of student satisfaction, suffer from exactly the same fallacy as the adult-imposition traditional school management---only in an inverted form.  That is, they are still obsessed by the personal factor; they conceive of no alternative to adult dictation save child dictation.  What is wanted is to get away from every mode of personal dictation and merely personal control.

     When the emphasis falls upon having experiences that are educationally worth while, the center of gravity shifts from the personal factor, and is found within the developing experience in which students participate.  The fundamental thing is to find the types of experiences that are worth having, not merely for the moment, but because of what they lead to---the questions they raise, the problems they create, the demands for new information they suggest, the activities they invoke, the larger and expanding fields which they continuously open.