progressivist
adjective
committed to, pursuing, or enacting a progressive social or political agenda.
progressivists
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pluralof progressivist.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The progressivists treat the schools as laboratories of experience in which students learn chiefly by pragmatic problem solving.
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Many aspects of Western Reserve's reforms have since been adopted by other schools, and last month Dean Douglas D. Bond announced that the Cleveland progressivists already consider their system outdated.
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Then, abruptly, the party line changed; hard learning returned to favor, and the progressivists were kicked out.
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In real education, according to the ruling progressivists, we take a serious chance of impairing our mental health.
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Perennialism leads to dogma and false orthodoxies; essentialism stagnates in the status quo; the progressivists, while strong on method, are not sure what they should be educating for.
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