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William Chandler Bagley

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
William Chandler Bagley 1874-1946, American educator and editor, b. Detroit, grad. Michigan State College (now Michigan State Univ.), 1895, M.S. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1898, Ph.D. Cornell Univ., 1900. He taught in elementary schools before becoming (1908) professor of education at the Univ. of Illinois. He was professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia, from 1917 to 1940. An opponent of pragmatism and progressive education, Bagley insisted on the value of knowledge for its own sake, not merely as an instrument, and he criticized his colleagues for their failure to emphasize systematic... Read more
William Chandler Bagley
William Chandler Bagley William Chandler Bagley (1874-1946) was an educator...educational "essentialism." William Chandler Bagley was born March 15, 1874, in Detroit, Michigan, to William Chase and Ruth (Walker) Bagley... Read more
The 1940s: Education: Deaths
...education, 29 October 1946. William Chandler Bagley, 72, education periodicals...widely used, 8 July 1946. William Brandenburg, 71, president...Commission, 6 August 1947. William Preston Few, 72, president...University, 28 January 1948. William Thomas Walsh, 57, biographer... Read more

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