It was discussed as a book written by a Rockefeller advisor, who advocated for a rigid educational system that focused on producing ideal workers for specific roles, rather than fostering thinkers.
We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science.
— Episode: Was Public School Created To Make Factor...
Episode: Was Public School Created To Make Factory Workers?
It was discussed as a book written by a Rockefeller advisor, who advocated for a rigid educational system that focused on producing ideal workers for specific roles, rather than fostering thinkers.
We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science.
We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for...great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen of whom we may have an ample supply.
The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are.
So we will organize our children into a little community and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way in the homes, in the shops and on the farm.
Episode: Was Public School Created To Make Factory Workers?
It was written by a Rockefeller advisor and outlined a vision for public education that emphasized training students for specific roles within a class system, rather than for higher learning or intellectual pursuits. It contained troubling ideas about limiting education for certain classes of people.
We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science.
We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for... great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen of whom we may have an ample supply.
The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are.
So we will organize our children into a little community and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way in the homes, in the shops and on the farm.