Quincy Plan (education)
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The Quincy Plan (also known as the Quincy Movement) was an educational initiative proposed by Francis W. Parker that intended to make education. The plan is named for the town of Quincy, Massachusetts where Parker unveiled it.
Reporting on the plan in 1902, N.M. Butler wrote that there were five themes to the Quincy Movement:
- Education is not devising methods or concocting ingenious devices.
- Methods and devices are small things and change with every individual who uses them.
- A principle is essential and the parent of a hundred methods.
- A cast-iron method is a principle’s worst enemy.
- The teacher with set methods has lost touch with human nature.
[edit] References
- A A Developmental TIME-LINE of Technology Education
- Butler, N. M. The Quincy movement. Report of the commissioner of education for the year 1902
