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Beyond the Debate over Revisionism: Three Educational Pasts Writ Large

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Jurgen Herbst
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A year ago, at this occasion, Clarence Karier closed his address with the observation that “our need today for a broader, more sophisticated educational history, comprehensively conceptualized on sound, structured ideas derived from free minds, playfully interacting with each other and the primary sources perhaps has never been greater, nor given today's social climate, more difficult to produce.” Nothing has happened during the past twelve months that would lead me to change this assessment. As before we stand in need of free minds; minds which are committed to comprehensiveness and rigor in their scholarly labors; minds which excel and delight in the play of intelligence with ideas and sources. As before, too, we are distraught by the indifference, even hostility, which our society, caught now in its own economic and moral crisis, manifests towards our concern for a more comprehensive, a more sophisticated understanding of our educational past; an understanding which, we hope, could be more adequate, more helpful for and in assessing our educational present.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , Summer 1980 , pp. 131 - 145
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Copyright © 1980 by History of Education Society 

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