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...81st year, William Heard Kilpatrick is still a formidable figure to U.S. educators-a courtly, silver-haired scholar who next to John Dewey has been the nation's foremost apostle of progressive education. Some schoolmen have revered him and some have damned him, but all have felt his influence. Last week scholars and educators from all over the U.S. assembled in a Manhattan ballroom to celebrate his fourscore years. And last week, in a new biography by ex-Student Samuel Tenenbaum,*readers could learn just what his influence has been in the U.S. school system...
Fame & Flurries. The son of a Baptist minister, William Kilpatrick first began to be known after he joined the staff of Columbia University Teachers College back in 1907. But even before that time, he had already proved that he was a rebel at heart. As a grammar-school principal in Georgia, he had stirred up flurries of controversy by doing away with report cards and never punishing his pupils. Later, as a professor of mathematics at Georgia's Baptist Mercer University, he stirred up more controversy by admitting that he did not believe in the Virgin birth. After...
...Teachers College, Rebel Kilpatrick found a permanent home at last. "Everything seems to center here," he once wrote, and to a large extent he was right. Under the leadership of such men as Philosopher John Dewey and Psychologist...
...federal aid to education though he had made it amply clear that he did not mean federal control. Others accused him of favoring "modern pragmatic education"-a slogan they made up but never bothered to explain. Still others objected to him simply because 77-year-old William Heard Kilpatrick, famed leftist advocate of progressive education, had been asked to speak at a small summer workshop for teachers...
...Kilpatrick, he later recalled, who initiated