William Torrey Harris’s Followers (3)

William Torrey Harris

Born

in North Killingly, Connecticut, The United States

September 10, 1835

Died

November 05, 1909

edit data

William Torrey Harris (September 10, 1835 – November 5, 1909) was an American educator, philosopher, and lexicographer.

Born in North Killingly, Connecticut, he attended Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. He completed two years at Yale, then moved west and taught school in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1857 to 1880, where he was superintendent of schools from 1868 to 1880, and established, with Susan E. Blow, America's first permanent public kindergarten in 1873. It was in St. Louis where William Torrey Harris instituted many influential ideas to solidify both the structural institution of the public school system and the basic philosophical principles of education. His changes led to the expansion of the public school curriculum ...more

Combine Editions
William Torrey Harris’s books

Average rating: 3.5 · 6 ratings · 2 reviews · 297 distinct works

	Appletons' Second Reader it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1878	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hegel's Doctrine of Reflection: Being a Paraphrase and a Commentary Interpolated into the Text of the Second Volume of Hegel's Larger Logic, Treatin 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chemical milling: The technology of cutting materials by etching (Oxford series on advanced manufacturing) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1977	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	International Education Series, Part 2: Educational Theory 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	the journal of spculative philosophy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Journal Of Speculative Philosophy - Volume XX. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Froebel's Origin of Nursery Education 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	International Education Series, Part 4: Education and Psychology 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	International Education Series, Part 5: The Art of Education 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	International Education Series, Part 1: History of Education 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by William Torrey Harris…

Quotes by William Torrey Harris (?)

“Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average citizen should be content with their humble role in life.”
― William T. Harris

3 likes

“Ninety-nine (students) out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.”
― William Torrey Harris, The Philosophy of Education

tags: education, education-system, factory-model-school, indoctrination, school

1 likes

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Goodreads Librari...: Please Combine	705	586	Mar 04, 2020 09:44AM