This comes out of the rat-maze psychology, and our love of the machine. For instance, schools are buying computers but don't know how to use them. They put them in a room and call it a laboratory. Well, that is about the book and not about learning. We worship the computer, the machine, not how it can help us intellectually.
Many reforms receive heavy criticism.
A few get only mild rebukes. They made students think about their subjects, but they were generally only practiced in elite schools. Gibboney got his start as an educator in a decidedly nonelite school. He began his career in the 1950s as a teacher in a progressive grade school in Ferndale, Mich., a northern suburb of Detroit. It was such a great communal teaching experience that we still have reunions of the principal and the teachers.