Edited sentence: According to the traditionalist, these activities build the mind rather than deaden it as progressive educationist would argue.But deeper analysis holds the opposite.Hirsch echoes Chall's sentiments, as well as a number of other education scholars who reject the student-centered orthodoxy.In fact, most of what would be termed "traditional education" actually produces superior results and more independent thinkers as compared to progressive, student centered approaches.In fact, she makes clear that no more research is needed: teacher-centered learning helps all students achieve much better than student-centered methods, and in fact the latter can even cause harm.Instead, to the traditionalist, most students, most of the time would be doing something other than academic learning if given the choice.Instruction Centre==.Jeanne Chall, a reading specialist at Harvard University School of Education and a self-proclaimed liberal, denounced progressive, student-centered approaches shortly before her death in 2000, in her book the Achievement Challenge.Moreover, and contrary to popular opinion, traditional approaches have produced superior results to progressive, students-centered models.Probably the most significant argument for traditional education can be found in the findings of Project Follow Through, which shows how the results brought by teacher-centered Direct Instruction are far superior to student-centered, progressive models tested in the same study.The student-centered, progressive models are irresistible to many people and seem right, just like it seems right that the sun moves through the sky as one lies on the beach on a sunny day.This is achieved, perhaps paradoxically, by informing the young mind with information, through practice and drill, memorization and correction- all the building blocks of higher thinking.To the traditionalist, the student's mind needs to be molded into one that can think independently.Traditional education denotes a time tested set of strategies meant develop student’s minds so that they can better participate in American society as informed, independent thinkers.Traditional education is largely misunderstood and derided as extremist.Traditional education rejects the romantic, Rousseauian notion that all children are naturally inclined to learn and that the teacher is merely a guide who must find the student's learning style and adjust the learning environment accordingly.Unfortunately, Traditionalists are seen as the heretics today in an education establishment dominated by progressives