him solve a problem. That’s not the way it works.” 
Well, people didn’t want to hear that. They wanted 
to send their kids to school and they wanted to 
have them taught the basics, and they wanted to 
have them become little specialists.


Q:  Certainly for the public there is this question of 
accessibility but a lot of his harshest criticism 
came from the academy, from his peers. Were they 
threatened by his radical approach? Or did some 
regard him as a charlatan, as someone whose 
ideas would simply not measure up?