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Because It's Good for You: An Argument for History of Education in Liberal Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Karen Graves
Karen Graves*
Affiliation:
Denison University, Granville, Ohio
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Whatever we determine a good education to be, and a well-educated person to be, our teachers should be that and no less—not because they are teachers but because they are persons.

“This is what college is supposed to be like!” That is what I thought before I was too far along in my EPS 201 course, “Social Foundations of American Education,” at the University of Illinois. I was a transfer student, and it was my first semester at the university. The professor was Paul Violas and my teaching assistant (TA) was Steve Tozer; the course was a survey of the history of education in the United States. I recall one day we had a guest lecture by Professor James Anderson, who drew material from a new book he was working on. What we learned in EPS 201 was substantial. It was, far and away, the most meaningful course in my undergraduate education. It was, also, the most significant preparation I had as a secondary school mathematics teacher.

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Critical Essay in the History of American Education
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , February 2014 , pp. 98 - 102
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Copyright © 2014 History of Education Society 

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