A Sociological Philosophy of Education

by Ross L. Finney1928book

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Extending Childhood

The 1920s were a boom period for forced schooling as well as for the stock market. In 1928, a well-regarded volume called A Sociological Philosophy of Education claimed it is the business of teachers to run not merely schools, but the world.⁴ A year later, the famous creator of educational psychology, Edward Thorndike of Columbia Teachers College, announced, "Academic subjects are of little value." William Kirkpatrick, his colleague at Teachers College, boasted in Education and the Social Crisis that the whole tradition of rearing the young was being made over by experts.⁵

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Whatever is put into the school process of to-day comes out in the social process of to-morrow. Within limits , education is the guiding factor in social change . Therefore the educators are running not merely the schools, but, in the long run, the world itself. The control of the collective life is passing from the soldiers , diplomats, politicians , and ecclesiastics to the scientists , scholars , and educators. (p. 15)

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