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Believed the students won't always have the correct answer.
Believed the best answer to a question is "What do you think" -
Promoted education for career preparation
Believed in children's natural tendency to want to learn
Education for all
Believed in extracurricular activities -
"Father of Modern Education"-believed children should feel comfortable in their environment
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Pragmatism, learning with students mind
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Believed in Vocational Education
Curriculum should be relevant to students -
Realized children learned more on farms than in the classroom
**Helped establish funding for agriculture classes -
Experiential- Learning based on experiencing
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Students learn best if they learn with skill they're stronger with