Essentialism as Education Theory

Essentialism as Education Theory in the words of the following philosophers -- William Bagley, and Herman Horne states as follows:
A. Learning of its very nature involves hard work and often unwlling application.
B.The initiative in Education should lie with the teacher rather than with the pupil.
C. The heart of the educational process is the assimilation of prescribed subject matter.
D.The school should retain traditional methods of mental discipline.

The weakness in the above theories is that all activities are said to be concentrated on the teacher to the neglect of the participation aspect of the pupil. Learning experiences should be so modelled as to give enough room for pupils' activities. Again No D above talks about mental discipline . Mental discipline is important for the student but this must not be allowed to degenerate into rote learning. Again in assimilating the subject matter the pupils should not base their learning on cramming .Rather, the habit of constant revision will be used for much of personal study for the materials to be encoded in their long term memory.