An alternative view can be taken that adopting a curriculum indulges in the principle that young people and other learners are a homogenous group, whose educational and cultural needs have little or no diversity. Indeed the school curriculum can be said to `correspond to academic and to middle class interests, and hence exclude[s] by its nature enormous numbers (Hannan, 1985: 36). Dewey too, was dubious of the history and tradition of the curriculum asserting that it needed continuous critique as it is `loaded down with purely inherited traditional matter … which represent mainly the energy of some influential person or … persons` and `represents the values of adults rather than those of children and youth, or those of pupils of a generation ago rather than those of the present day` (Dewey, 1997: 241).