Dare the School Build a New Social Order?
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By: George S. Counts
Date: 1932
Source: Counts, George S. Dare the School Build a New Social Order? Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1932. Excerpts reprinted in Reed, Ronald F., and TonyW. Johnson, eds. Philosophical Documents in Education. New York: Longman, 2000, 120–122.
About the Author: George Sylvester Counts (1889–1974) was born in frontier Kansas and taught high school before receiving the first Ph.D. in sociology of education awarded by the University of Chicago in 1916. By 1927 Counts was a professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia. Counts traveled extensively in the Soviet Union and throughout Europe in the 1920s. In 1932 he challenged the audience of the Progressive Education Association (PEA) with his speech, "Dare Progressive Education Be Progressive?" In his later years, Counts became an anticommunist,...
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