Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Quotes

• Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.

  Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

  Children, School, Civilization

  Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1916). “Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles Underlying the Organization and Administration of Public Education”

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• Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

  Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

  School, Demand, May

  Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1919). “Public Education in the United States: A Study and Interpretation of American Educational History; an Introductory Textbook Dealing with the Larger Problems of Present-day Education in the Light of Their Historical Development”

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