What is Progressive Education?

Progressive education is one of the results of democratic society in twentieth century. This process has two main factors; first respect for diversity, and second cultivating of critical, socially engaged intelligence. This thinking has been shaped when people start to think about shared power and private wealth. Progressive educators were against an increasing national progress that divide academic education for the few and limit vocational training for the masses. Ivan Illich was one who had grate ideas about educational systems. He criticized schools based on these thinking.