[not verified in body] Educational thinkers such as Maria Montessori and John Dewey influenced Parkhurst while she created the Dalton Plan.
[citation needed] In 1920, an article describing the working of the Dalton Plan in detail was published in the Times' Educational Supplement.
Parkhurst "has given to the secondary school the leisure and culture of the University student; she has uncongested the curriculum; she has abolished the teacher's nightly preparation of classes and the child's nightmare of homework.
The underlying aim of the Dalton Plan is to achieve the highest mental, moral, physical and spiritual development of the pupil.
MH In Japan, Admiral Osami Nagano introduced a progressive educational method such as the Dalton plan to the Japanese Naval Academy School and influenced it.