1950's Education | Education and Liberty: The Role of the Schools in a Modern Democracy

Nonfiction work

By: James Bryant Conant

Date: 1958

Source: Conant, James Bryant. Education and Liberty: The Role of the Schools in a Modern Democracy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 76–87.

About the Author: James Bryant Conant (1893–1978) earned a bachelor's and doctorate in chemistry from Harvard University, where he later taught. He was president of Harvard from 1933 to 1953. Conant was the chairman of the National Defense Research Committee and served as the U.S. high commissioner to West Germany. He conducted a study of U.S. high schools for the Carnegie Corporation, and the report was published as The American High School Today: A First Report to Interested Citizens (1959). Conant was the author of many books.

Introduction

During the first half of the nineteenth century, one of the arguments in favor of the development of...