The Graves of AcademeThe illuminating spirit, or evil genius, of modern educationism was Wilhelm Max Wundt, a Hegelian psychologist who established the world's first laboratory for psychological experimentation at the University of Leipzig, where he worked and taught from 1875 to 1920. He dreamed of transforming psychology, a notably soft'' science dealing in vague generalizations and abstract pronouncements, into a hard'' science, like physics. |
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The Graves of Academe: A Scathing Indictment of the Public Educational System Richard Mitchell No preview available - 2014 |
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