The New Education: Progressive Education One Hundred Years Ago Today

by Scott Nearing

Book Overview

Best known for his paean to self-sufficiency, Living the Good Life, which became a bestseller that Newsweek called "an underground bible for the city-weary," Scott Nearing was also a high-profile public advocate for education reform at the start of the Progressive era. Lamenting that public schools had failed to keep up with societal changes, Nearing traveled the country during the early decades of the twentieth century, documenting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595582096
• ISBN13: 9781595582096
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.4"