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Education and Egalitarianism in America
Title: Education and Egalitarianism in America
Category: History
Details: Words: 4760 | Pages: 20.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Education and Egalitarianism in America
The American educator Horace Mann once said: "As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated." Education is the process through which people endeavor to pass along to their children their hard-won wisdom and their aspirations for a better world. This process begins shortly after birth, as parents seek to train the …showed first 75 words of 4760 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 4760 total…egalitarianists raised the standards to promote equality.
Clearly, the American education system has changed drastically over the years. From one-room schoolhouses to acres of college campus... from Pestalozzi to Dewey... from simple religious studies to graduate programs, education has been influenced by many different factors, such as egalitarianism, wisdom of the heart, and most importantly, practicality. "Necessity is the mother of invention", they say... Just as practicality is the mother of educational reform.
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