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Years, the gary plan's spread from gary, indiana, to the greatest cities in the nation. >> there's always good news. ill-founded and ill-conceived took hold in america. i didn't take hold for very long because people started to shift back, was they realized that learning was being compromised. >> pete: the gary plan, long forgotten, we remember it and you can watch it. before five-part series, "the miseducation of america," is available right now. only on fox nation. this beautiful hall i am in right now, i will be hosting a live summit tomorrow morning, starting at 9:00 a.m. live on fox natio...
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 d...
A simple -- his answer to that this is what we have got to do, pete, print more money in the build back worse plan. people are listening to this like really? a total failure of a speech. >> pete: and his solution was the build back better plan that's never going to pass. i mean, it was never an answer. when he was asked about the three things he wants to do differently. i am going to get out there more often and talk to the people. talk to the experts like think tanks and editorial boards and going to get deeply involved in elections which brings me to next soundbite. he was asked about whethe...
Students within its system up until the 12th grade. students were split into two platoons, one study more traditional, core, academic related subjects, while the other platoon were taking classes in art, physical education, and industrial art courses specifically equipped facilities. while this aspect of the gary plan did not endure, many components of this concept have survived. >> when you went to high school, how many. did you have? >> well, there were four, then there were seven. >> generally seven is the number of periods. that was started at the gary school. the other thing that was star...