William Heard Kilpatrick, an American philosopher of education and influential professor to thousands of American graduate students, strongly rejected traditional subjects for the curriculum pattern and originated the project method of education. This innovation, a crystallization of Frank Morton McMurry's Haw To Study and John Dewey's How We Think, helped disseminate Demy's educational philosophy, which emphasized the importance of placing the interests, problems, and purposes of the child at the center of the educational process. In 1918 Kilpatrick popularized the project concept or method, defining it as any unit of purposeful experience or any instance of purposeful activity where "dominating purpose as an inner urge, 1) fixes the aim of the action, 2) guides its process 3) furnishes its drive, its inner motivation for its vigorous prosecution.* He outlined four types of projects for a model curriculum: those involving the formation of ideas; projects involving problem solving...