Irving Babbitt, the moral imagination, and progressive education.

From: Humanitas | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

When Literature and the American College, Irving Babbitt's critique of the new educational theories, was first published in 1908, it was a shot fired across the bow of the ship of progressive reform in American higher education. Babbitt fired a sound shot, but he lost the war. Since that time, educational reform has run through various movements, including, but not limited to, the industrial education movement, the mental testing movement, differentiated curriculum, child-centered education, the mental hygiene movement, the efficiency movement, constructivism, and education for ...

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