ancient greeks trying to do? they were trying to liberate people from having... the idea of a liberal education or a freeing education was to train even a stonemason to be freethinkers. at the took us right back to building a school that taught us how to do a job. ♪ ♪ and so this was the man, william worked, he is the man who was in charge of implementing the gary plan in gary, indiana. >> an admirer of john dewey, used his role as superintendent of gary schools to enact his progressive plan. unlike most public schools of that era which lasted up until the eighth grade, the gary plan was designed to keep its