Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Quotes

United States, Educator
June 6, 1868 – September, 14, 1941.

Ellwood Patterson Cubberley was an American educator and a pioneer in the field of educational administration. He spent most of his career as a professor and later dean in the Stanford Graduate School of Education in California.

Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.

Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

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