Research Catalog

Title

Between two wars; the failure of education, 1920-1940, by Porter Sargent.

Author

Sargent, Porter.

Publication

Boston, Mass., P. Sargent [1945]

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Details

Description

3 preliminary leaves, [9]-608 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Education > United States > History
• Education
• Education > United States > History
• United States

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical references included in "Notes" at end of most of the chapters.

Contents

What's back of the failure? : Did education fail? : What to avoid ; What was lacking ; The sin of ignorance -- This book : The plan ; Who for? ; The purpose ; Who did it ; The handbook idea ; Influencing human behavior ; Let there be light -- What a time this was! : A changing world ; The political and economic set-up ; The passing of Europe ; The terrible twenties ; The fearful thirties ; The fear of revolution ; The tide turns ; Organizing reactions ; De-grading our educators ; Distorting thought and emotion -- Our intellectual history : Heresy destroys unity ; From liberalism to radicalism ; Growth of American thought ; Institutional influences ; Our literary intellects ; Historiography of the intellect -- The mental jungle : Cutting new trails ; How we got that way ; What's on your mind? ; Straight and crooked thinking ; What is intelligence? -- Great expectations : Education from print : Becoming book conscious ; Reading habits ; Books as windows -- Something new in education : Parker and Dewey ; Reddie and Lietz ; Interest and freedom -- After the war was over : Reconstruction in England ; In America ; Future of education -- What we have learned : Humanizing knowledge : Remaking history ; History in the large ; Prehistory ; Mind in the making ; Shamefully uneducated -- Studying society : Our social problems ; The science of living together ; Education and sociology ; Social change ; The roots of society -- Learning about behavior : How we behave ; History of conduct ; Motivation ; Habits and character ; Mind and personality ; Human nature ; Genius? -- What are brains for? : Almost human ; The discovery of intelligence ; Rats and men ; Thobbing and thinking ; Learning ; Master of destiny -- New approaches and attitudes : The anthropologist looks at education : Transmitting culture ; Coming of age ; Maintaining tradition -- Our misfit civilization : Our boasted culture ; Our oriental heritage ; Happy primitives ; Our discontent with civilization ; Civilization on trail -- Our mores and morals : Sin and sociology ; Ethics and religion ; The new morality ; Our immoral social system ; Ethical relativity ; Good and evil -- Man's great adventure : The long road : The story of life ; Ascent from the ape ; Emergence of man -- Revitaminizing education : Life on the farm ; Yankee resourcefulness and initiative ; Urban decadence ; Restoring the vitamins ; Re-energizing education ; Harnessing the pupil's energy ; Encouraging growth -- The dead hand : Breaking with the past ; Prurient hypocrisy ; Mental wreckage ; Moral bankruptcy ; What youth faces ; Fallacies in ethical teaching ; Real business of living ; Academic bogeys ; Truth -- This changing world : The wages of win : Easy money ; The dead hand ; Crime and education ; Bigger and better wars ; Educators challenged ; Evading social responsibility ; Can man become civilized? ; What this world means to us -- Private initiative threatened : Abuses of private initiative ; Socialization of our schools ; Indoctrinating children ; Society verses the individual ; Communistic old maid ants ; Fascist royal termites -- What knowledge is of most worth? : Useless knowledge ; Use of leisure ; Value of work ; What education may become ; Educational limits ; Conscious control -- The permanence of change : Obstructing the inevitable ; Changing human nature ; Social objectives ; Redirecting education ; What education might do -- Deepening understanding : Lengthening our view : The never ending quest ; Civilizations come and go ; Human ecology ; What of tomorrow? ; Faith is needed -- America looks at herself : New social consciousness ; Others take a look ; Our craven civics teaching ; A new economy ; Schools and politics -- Who and what controls : Ideas and ideologies ; Invisible government ; What profits a man ; Political power ; The diplomatic game ; Imbecile misdirection -- Liberty, democracy, and all that : Slogans and shibboleths ; Toward dictatorship ; Communism and socialism ; Philosophic anarchy ; Cooperating in common interests -- Portent and promise : Europe ascendant : A mongrel people ; What makes us different ; Forbidden history ; International paranoia ; The terrifying uncertainty of peace ; The war victors ; Men of good will -- How we get our ideas : Becoming conscious ; Poisoning the news ; Preparing the victim ; Dead and fossil propaganda ; Starved intellects -- Our mental attitudes : The conservative mind ; The questioning mind ; The seminal mind ; Symbols and slogans ; Will the upper classes survive? -- The promise of science : Frontiers of knowledge ; What scientists are doing ; Sabotaging scientific gains ; Biological approach ; Art as experience ; Ethics may be science ; Forever unsatisfied, never dissatisfied -- The turn of the tide : Our culture challenged : Science and culture ; Conant steps out ; Factors determining human behavior ; Authority and the individual ; Resistance to social change ; Meeting new challenges ; Ignorance of educated -- The proper study : The first million years ; The last hundred years ; Societies and social systems ; Ethnic memory ; Formation of the soul ; Beginning of mind ; Origin of art ; Human machine ; Using our brains ; Improving the breed ; Human comedy ; Mind and body -- Confusion and chaos : Retreat or advance ; Aristotle confused ; Education is adjustment ; Learning by experience ; Gregarious learning ; The simian way ; Live and learn ; Preventing adjustment ; How it's done ; Intellectual poisons ; Perpetuating human stupidity -- Control of education : How free? ; Keeping teachers timid : Controversial subjects ; Where education has failed ; Is college worth while? ; Freedom and restraint : Academic freedom : Reaction and repression ; Keeping teachers in line ; Hiring and firing ; Tamed and dulled -- Starving the social sciences : Increasing demand ; Birth of the social sciences ; The doctor's fears ; Undergraduates frustrated -- The business of running a university : Impermanent foundations ; Why classics and philosophy? ; The dead weight of alumni ; Free and fearless -- The fear psychosis : Fear everywhere ; Nations gone mad ; The group mind fallacy ; Schizophrenia ; Heritage of ignorance ; Human conflict -- Can education save the world? : Blind faith, vain hope ; Universities dominate the schools ; Presidential aspirations ; Passing of the private university -- Resistance to adjustment : Philosophic fetters : Philosophic heresy ; A nonsense game ; Modern medievalists ; Philosophy as poetry ; Socrates' love of wisdom ; Why Plato failed ; Philosophy of education ; Philosophy and science -- Man's slow adjustment ; Social beginnings ; The science of social adjustment ; Fossil conservatives and radicals ; The greatest story ever told ; Our moral nature ; What we owe to slavery ; Primitive intelligence ; Discovery and invention ; We are social parvenus ; Other societies -- The social scene : Prevailing myths ; The hunger incentive ; The effect of income ; Our caste system ; Cultures within cultures -- The breeding ground of imperialism : Desperate incompetence ; England's predicament ; Snobbery and snubbery ; Old school tie ; Fatal loyalty ; The wreckers -- A realistic appraisal : Progressive schools of the past : Ancestral progressives ; Protestant reformers ; Essentialists and progressives 200 years ago ; Anachronistic survivals ; The English tradition ; American adaptations ; Importations from Europe ; The church school ; Appraisal and influence -- The great American industry : The nature and function of industry ; Biggest and most bullish activity ; Operating the machine ; Costs of education ; Raw material ; Our educational processes ; Educational inertia -- Folkways of education : An anthropological survey ; Why they behave as they do ; The great American folk festival ; The college class ; Advertising and selling ; Ecclesiastical origins ; The cult of cap and gown ; Big magic ; The great American goddess -- Academic mythology : The nature of myth ; Tongue magic is ear-binding ; Bromidic folklore ; Myth breakers ; Pursuing truth ; Where truth lies ; The truth is dated ; "Keep abreast of truth" -- Facing reality : All change ; The spirit of inquiry ; Educational heresies ; A social activity ; Unconscious education ; The biological view ; Growing up ; Beliefs, opinions, creeds ; Aims, objects, purposes -- Our acquisitive civilization : Scholarly sterility : Marking and branding ; A second hand dealer ; Descended from the monk ; The ivory tower ; The scholars fail us -- Distorted history : History to a purpose ; 'A lie agreed upon' ; Myths and falsifications ; Habitual assumptions ; What history is ; Interpretation of history ; The economic motive ; What is history for? -- Our Roman culture : The creative Greeks ; The acquisitive Romans ; Our Roman heritage ; The revolt against authority ; Failure of western culture -- Getting straight again : What's ahead : Confusion ; Hate or understanding ; Taking in the outs -- The intellectual climate today : What we have done and not done ; Waste is wicked ; Our intellectual degradation ; Deceit is evil ; Knowledge is power ; Ignorance brings disaster ; What education is ; What education may yet be ; The answer.

LCCN

45005950

OCLC

• ocm02511666
• 2511666
• SCSB-337579

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library