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 popular aspirations should be revised downward accordingly. After discussing the thinking that reformers reacted against in the first chapter of the book, later chapters examine those most responsible for these new ideas, especially Felix Adler and John Dewey. These chapters argue that reformers' fears about the social dislocation stemming from economic growth makes the most sense of the educational redirection they promoted. This is a new interpretation of developments that have long been debated by American historians, and should be of interest to a wide variety of readers.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY CONFRONTS THE COMMON SCHOOL TRADITION -- CHAPTER TWO: E. L. GODKIN, PATRICIAN TUTOR: LIMITED GROWTH, EDUCATION, AND THE DEFENSE OF CASTE -- CHAPTER THREE: PATRICIAN REFORM AND TRADITIONALIST REACTION IN BOSTON: CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, JR. AND JOHN PHILBRICK -- CHAPTER FOUR: FELIX ADLER, ETHICAL CULTURE, AND EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN NEW YORK: FROM THE WORKINGMAN'S SCHOOL TO \'THE ETHICS OF NEIGHBORHOOD,\' 1876-1900 -- CHAPTER FIVE: NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER: FROM THE LABOR QUESTION TO TEACHERS COLLEGE -- CHAPTER SIX: ACADEMIC CAREERS AND THE REFORM IMPULSE: THE EXAMPLE OF JOHN DEWEY -- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE USES OF PEDAGOGY: CHILDREN'S NEEDS AND THE MEANING OF WORK -- CHAPTER EIGHT: EDUCATION AND UTOPIA: THE COMMUNITY OF THE SELF-FULFILLED -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.