Susan F. Semel recalling Howard Gardner's statement on necesssity to focus on child's individual interests:
"The child-centered strand of progressive education that Dalton represented, helped to create a school climate that was particularly tolerant of individual differences....progressive teachers created assignements, and classroom environments that nurtureed, what Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner terms "multiple intelligence" ....."In sum, Dalton became a place where individual differences- physical as well as cognitive- were considered to be part of living, for Dalton attempted to be in Deweyan terms "an embryonic community"
(Susan F. Samel, The Dalton School, Peter Lang Publishing, New York 1992, p. 102).
