Thus as its critic Peters (1969) summarized, the Plowden Report represented the liberal/progressive view that the child has a ‘nature’which ‘develops’ given the appropriate environment, that self direction (including both autonomy and discovery) are vital to this development, that knowledge is not compartmentalized and the curriculum should be integrated to reflect this, and teacher must be a guide, an arranger of the environment rather than an instructor, enabling the child to proceed form discovery to discovery when they are ‘ready’ with minimum intervention.