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〈 Munsterberg And His Disciples
〈 The Prototype Is A Schoolteacher
〈 Teachers College Maintains The
〈 A Lofty, Somewhat Inhuman Vision
〈 Rain Forest Algebra
〈 Godless, But Not Irreligious
〈 An Insider's Insider
〈 Compulsion Schooling
〈 De-Moralizing School Procedure
〈 William Torrey Harris
〈 Cardinal Principles
〈 The Unspeakable Chautauqua
A very small group of young psychologists around the turn of the century were able to create and
market a system for measuring human talent that has permeated American institutions of learning
and influenced such fundamental social concepts as democracy, sanity, justice, welfare,
reproductive rights, and economic progress. In creating, owning, and advertising this social
technology the testers created themselves as professionals.
– Joanne Brown, The Definition of a Profession:The Authority of Metaphor in the History of
Intelligence Testing
I have undertaken to get at the facts from the point of view of the business men–citizens of the
community who, after all, pay the bills and, therefore, have a right to say what they shall have in
their schools.
– Charles H. Thurber, from an address at the Annual Meeting of the National Education Association, July
9, 1897
Munsterberg And His Disciples
The self-interested have had a large hand conceiving and executing twentieth-century schooling, yet once that's
said, self-interest isn't enough to explain the zeal in confining other people's children in rooms, locked away from
the world, the infernal zeal which, like a toadstool, keeps forcing its way to the surface in this business. Among
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millions of normal human beings professionally associated with the schoo