The Aptitude Myth by Cornelius N. Grove

Author:Cornelius N. Grove
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: R&L Education
Published: 2012-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

We’ve now identified two ingredients of the social context of education between the two wars: first, immigration that vastly differed from anything previously experienced, and that settled in the larger cities; second, an educational establishment that was grievously flawed.

The third key contextual ingredient is the rapid rise of industrial capitalism (especially across the northeast and midwest) and, as a counterpoint, the growth of organized labor. We need not go into detail about the steps by which this came to pass, nor about the conspicuous excesses of very wealthy families during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, nor about the contentious and occasionally violent relationship between business owners and workers.

For our purposes, what’s important is the relationship between the industrial capitalists and their supporters on the one hand, and the city, state, and university-based leaders of the American educational establishment on the other hand. Educational historians broadly concur that leading educators came to see things from the perspective of the owners of industry and the other members of the corporate elite. The outcome was that American public schools evolved into a “system to improve human capital as a means of economic growth.”[6]

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