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Charles W. Eliot and the Secondary School

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Edward Krug
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Charles W. Eliot brought to the chairmanship of the Committee of Ten a background of more than twenty years' concern about and interest in secondary schools. In April 1892, the president of the Massachusetts Association of Classical and High School Teachers said that Eliot had been “with us” since 1870 as “a most original, stimulating, inspiring, and, I may almost say, provoking force.” He added that it was “no small distinction to this body that President Eliot, by all odds the leader in American education today, got some portion of his training in the arena of debate which we provided him.”

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Research Article
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , September 1961 , pp. 4 - 21
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Copyright © 1961, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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