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Education and the Cult of Efficiency

reviewed by Lawrence Cremin � 1963

Title: Education and the Cult of Efficiency
Author(s): Raymond E. Callahan
Publisher: John Wiley, New York
ISBN: 0226091503 , Pages: , Year: 1964
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Professor Callahan advances an intriguing thesis in Education and the Cult of Efficiency, and he does so with verve and persuasion. What is wrong with today's schools, he argues, is not that they are dominated by the ideals of progressivism, but rather that they have fallen into the hands of narrowly trained administrators who preach the gospel of economy under the guise of science. His case is richly documented from the educational literature of the past half-century, and it is a damning case indeed. The story begins in the years just before World War I. The schools, then as now, were under sharp attack as antiquated, wasteful, inefficient, and ineffective. The industrial engineer, Frederick W. Taylor, had captured the imagination of the business community with his principles of scientific management—especially the time-and-mo-tion study and the standardization of tasks —and had argued further that his principles were universally applicable—to homes, farms, churches, universities, and government agencies. What more appropriate response for the beleaguered educators than to follow Taylor 's lead and... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 65 Number 2, 1963, p. 184-186
http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 2724, Date Accessed: 2/9/2010 12:16:17 PM

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