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Commencement Speech
" So, here you are at last, class of 2010, about to graduate. But from what? "
Category: Education
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Private Enterprise in Education
" The private institutions of higher education in the United States and the business men who have traditionally supported them... "
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The Ends of Education
" There is more agreement about the ends of education in contemporaneous discussion than about the way in which they are to be derived. "
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Pedagogy for the Oppressed
" A careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship at any level, inside or outside the school, reveals its fundamentally narrative character. "
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Greenwich Village and the Soul of a Woman (On Clara Mayer)
" Clara Mayer, the heart, brains and soul of the New School for Social Research from 1919 until 1960 hired me as registrar, that is, bean counter, during those early WWII years... "
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“Education as Growth” and “Experience and Thinking”
" The following pages embody an endeavor to detect and state the ideas implied in a democratic society and to apply these ideas to the problems of the enterprise of education. "
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My Pedagogic Creed
" I believe that all education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race. "
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Art Models in the 1960s
Art models at The New School offer an insight to the changes, discrepancies, and happenings at the New School during the 1960s. The New School Archives provides us with records of letters, receipts, and work forms pertaining to the models during the period. Most telling is the raise in model wages that took place from […]
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Professionals as Professors: Fashion before 1950
The Fashion Design program at Parsons has always been known for its professors and mentors, and the professors have always been industry professionals who bring the students outside of the classroom and into the real world. Before 1952 some of the most notable and iconic professors and mentors were Gilbert Adrian, Claire McCardell, and Christian […]
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Alvin Johnson
Alvin Saunders Johnson (December 18, 1874 – June 7, 1971) was an American economist and a co-founder and first director of The New School. Alvin Johnson was born near Homer, Nebraska. He was educated at the University of Nebraska and Columbia (Ph.D., 1902). Afterwards, he was employed in various positions at Columbia, the University of […]