Plan daltoński jako narzędzie dla współczesnej edukacji. Konieczność czy ekstrawagancja?

The organisation of the work system in the dalton plan is based on the three main rules: the study of freedom (responsibility); the study of independence; the study of cooperation. It was described by Helen Purkhaurst, the American teacher, at the beginning of the twentieth century. She introduced her ideas in the book entitled: „Education on the Dalton Plan. According to her assumptions, the Dalton Plan enables to adapt the speed of learning to the real child’s possibilities, it teaches to depend on yourself, developes initiative and indepen-dence both in doing and thinking, inspires to search for the best and the easiest ways of working, it teaches the sense of responsibility for doing the taken exercise, it initiates child to self learn and to compatible education between the teacher and student. The child doing the Dalton education chooses the way of performing, which he or she wants to, he or she can learn alone or in a group, and can adjust the speed of learning to his/her abilities. Helen Purkhaurst thought that in order to start to work with a child, one need to know him/her very well and precisely look at his/her progress in education. That is why the pro-posed by Helen Purkhaurst model of the Dalton education is flexible, it is changed and can be fit according to place and time. It does not marginalize the individual features of a child, but leads them to form and develop. The Dalton Plan and so relies on the individuation of the work with every child. On taking action, rather than appealing to ready, of solutions, for the search and the drawing of inferences already for the youngest years.