The History of Education -- Ellwood Cubberley

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920

Hard Cover in good condition. Mild wear to the cover boards.

No dust jacket.

Binding sound.

839 pages. 

Ellwood Patterson Cubberley was an influential educator in the field of educational administration. He  helped guide the teacher education curriculum in the early twentieth century through his edited textbook series. His account of educational history set the historiographical tone for the first half of the twentieth century.

His many textbooks emphasized the rise of American education as a powerful force for literacy, democracy, and equal opportunity, and a firm basis for higher education and advanced research institutions. He advocated enlightenment and modernization over ignorance, cost-cutting, and traditionalism in which parents tried to block their children's intellectual access to the wider world. Teachers dedicated to the public interest, reformers with a wide vision, and public support from the civic-minded community were the heroes. The textbooks helped inspire students to become public school teachers and thereby fulfill their own civic mission. Cubberley was perhaps the most significant theorist of educational administration of his day. 

 

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