Flexner, which says in part:
"Aside from reading, writing, spelling, and figuring, the curriculum of the modern school would be built out of actual activities in science, industry, aesthetics, civics, in science would be the central and dominating feature.
"The curriculum includes nothing that cannot be done in a formal grammar. For such evidence as we possess points to the futility of formal grammar as an aid to correct speaking and writing.
"A Modern School would not go through the form of teaching children useless historic facts just because previous generations of children have learned and forgotten them; and also the courage not to read obsolete and uncongenial classics, simply because tradition has made this sort of acquaintance a kind of good form.
"Neither Latin nor Greek would be contained in the curriculum—not, of course, because their literatures are less wonderful than they are reputed to be, but because their present position is negative.
"In the curriculum rests and assumption.
"A inquirer of Latin and because useless to it is whether a knowledge valuable.
"Mathematics pupils do not get it; and it is equally beside the mark to ask whether the obtain this knowledge is a valuable discipline, since failure is so widespread that the only habits acquired through failing to learn Latin or algebra should work, of guessing, mechanical application of formulae, not  themselves understood. 