Progressive Education Versus Basic Education

STANFORD APPOINTS EIGHTEEN- YEAR-OLD TO FACULTY POSITION

Harvey Friedman joined the Stanford faculty two days before his nineteenth birthday in 1967. Friedman, the youngest professor ever at that time, just "thought faster" than everyone else. He spent two years at MI Tearning his undergraduate degree, then one more earning his Ph.D., a regimen that normally takes seven years. Excited about his teaching assignments in both science and mathematics, Friedman commented, "It's going to be fun teaching—even if my students are older than I am."

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Newsweek (2 October 1967): 56.

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Defining the Camps.

One point of agreement among almost all scholars of reform during the 1960s was that American education...

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