Patricians, professors, and public schools : : the origins of modern educational thought in America / / by Allan S. Horlick.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 53
• VerfasserIn: Horlick, Allan Stanley, 1941-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1994.
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 53.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (273 pages)

Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools argues that the thinking behind efforts to reform American schools in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emphasized two new ideas—that economic growth and the opportunity it created were more limited than had earlier been thought, and that po...