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To have directed one of the foremost schools of education in the United States from 1898 until 1933, to have presided during those thirty-five years over the training of nearly three thousand of the graduates whom it has sent out to all parts of the United States and beyond, many of them to occupy strategic positions in the educational world as professors, research workers and school and college executives, and to crown this life's work by presenting it with a new 500,000-dollar building paid for out of the proceeds, judiciously invested, of spare-time earnings during all those years—to few is it given in their declining years to look back on so satisfying an achievement. It is commemorated in a pamphlet recently issued by Stanford University in connexion with the opening of the University School of Education Building—the gift of Dean (emeritus) Cubberley and his wife. A noteworthy feature of the School since the Great War is the importance of the summer quarter, during which most of the students are school executives or teachers, contacts between whom and the School faculty have proved highly stimulating. The summer is indeed regarded as the most important quarter of the university year for instruction in the field of education. the delightful summer climate of the Santa Clara Valloy is one of the School's most valuable assets. An article by the present Dean emphasizes the conception that professional study in education should have a foundation of scholarship in the social studies and in psychology and human biology. “The school has been one of the most static of the social institutions… University schools of education, have responsibility for developing now conceptions and techniques of education which are more adequate for modern society,” so that the school system may develop in the people “the vision, the creativeness, the initiative, the critical-mindedness, the understanding, and the discipline which will… give expression to the democratic social ideals.”
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A Californian School of Education. Nature 144, 281 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144281a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144281a0