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Gary Plan scientific-realist education Decroly method experimental school Montessori schools Winnetka Plan Dalton Plan Froebelism Quincy Plan education Bloom’s taxonomy critical thinking Pestalozzianism Herbartianism Talented Tenth alternative education teaching medical education distance learning preschool education

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Celestia Susannah Parrish

American educator

Carleton Washburne

American educator

John Dewey

John Dewey

American philosopher and educator

Elisabeth Antoinette Irwin

American educator