The 'doctrine of social efficiency': Educating our youth

06 February 2013

Early 20th century consensus on American education: “… the underlying principle of differentiating schooling to meet the needs of different classes of pupils–as determined by the educational expert in the light of the presumed career of the student–almost all would have accepted”

(Tyack 1974 p. 191)

During the early 20th century,

”… most teaching, not surprisingly, was mechanical”

(Tyack 1974 p. 192)