Which theories and historical influences should most impact the schools we'd like to have?

This varies from person to person depending on what their own theory of education is. In our SED class we wrote our beginning philosophies of education which will evolve with the more we learn, and learning about theories and historical influences can help strengthen them. In the research we did on educational shifts not only did we get to learn about educational shifts that interested us and most likely mimicked part of our beginning philosophies but by review others we were able to learn more about other shifts and their influences. Though I did not do this I think it would be interesting to look at theories and influences that are against our philosophies. Sometimes finding out what you believe is helped by learning about what you don’t.