Flexner saw more clearly than any other how the money of the Board could be used to further Progressive Education. In 1916 he presented his plan to create a laboratory school at the Columbia Teachers College that would be a showplace for the Progressive Education practices of Dewey and Thorndike. Flexner had wanted to call it “The Modern School”, but the phrase was so disliked that he decided to name it the Lincoln School. [An ironic twist: Lincoln had been self-taught. --G.S.] Wundtian psychology and Rockefeller money were now combined in an institution whose goal “was the construction of new curricula and the development of new methods.” His experimental school would eliminate the study of Latin and Greek. Literature and history would not be completely abolished, but new methods would be instituted for teaching these subjects. Classical literature would be ignored, and formal English grammar would be dropped.