Public Education in the United States
A Study and Interpretation of American Educational History
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Extending Childhood
I know how difficult it is for most of us who mow our lawns and walk our dogs to comprehend that long-range social engineering even exists, let alone that it began to dominate compulsion schooling nearly a century ago. Yet the 1934 edition of Ellwood P. Cubberley’s Public Education in the United States is explicit about what happened and why. As Cubberley puts it:
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Used in: Extending Childhood
it has come to be desirable that children should not engage in productive labor. On the contrary, all recent thinking and legislation have been opposed to their doing so. Both the interests of organized labor and the interests of the Nation have set against child-labor. (p. 421)
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Used in: The Dang'an
the nature of the national need must determine the character of the education provided. (p. 421)