1920's Education | The Heart Is the Teacher

Memoir

By: Leonard Covello

Date: 1958

Source: Covello, Leonard, with Guido D'Agostino. The Heart Is the Teacher. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958. Excerpted in The Work of Teachers in America: A Social History Through Stories. Rosetta Marantz Cohen and Samuel Scheer, eds. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1997, 216–221.

About the Author: Leonard Covello (1887–1982) came to America with his family from Italy at the age of eight. He was a teacher, advocate for the Italian American community, and proponent of the inclusion of Italian in the curriculum alongside other modern languages. He received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and later earned a Ph.D. from New York University. As a high school teacher and principal, Covello was actively involved in the lives of his students and their families and communities.

Introduction

Prior to the 1880s, most...