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...Rather Be Right." As a student (Cornell and Teachers College), Russell came under the conflicting influences of John Dewey and William ("I'd rather be right than Progressive") Bagley. He survived the excesses of the psychological testers who seemed to think that education could be reduced to a series of quotients. Later, he observed William Heard Kilpatrick's philosophy ("We learn what we live"), which turned millions of pupils away from their books to endless activity projects. When T.C.'s Professor George Counts was going through his Utopian phase of daring schools to "build a new social...
...spite of such widespread acceptance of his theories, William Kilpatrick soon found the pendulum swinging the other way. At 80 he remains an incorrigible rebel, but in revolt against a counterrevolution, started by men like the late William C. Bagley and Robert M. ("The Great Books") Hutchins. His critics in education have long sought to repeal him, insisting that in trying to breathe life into the schools, he has merely blown away their substance...
...Ph.D. at Columbia University's Teachers College, the nearest thing to Mecca in modern education. There, the winds-of doctrine blew about him, from the fiery progressivism of Deweyite William Kilpatrick to the suave conservatism of William ("I'd rather be right than Progressive") Bagley. As Kenneth Oberholtzer proceeded on his career, he found his own philosophy "somewhere in between." By the time Denver got around to picking him for its $18,500 top school job, he was the popular school superintendent of Long Beach, Calif.-the youngest superintendent of any city of 100,000 population or more...
Whitney's housewives redoubled their cries. Complained 70-year-old Mrs. T. E. Bagley: "They must spit about two or three gallons a day! They ain't died fast enough, these old men!" Tom Rose, 97-year-old dean of the bench sitters, replied with spirit: "Come here in '77 from Tennessee, been married 76 years, and my wife ain't whipped me yet! What do they want us old folks to do-hide in the woods...
With his excellent textbook on airplane photography, Lt. Col. James W. Bagley, Lecturer in airplane photography, has made a decided contribution to the success of Raisz's "plane's-eye" cartography. Widely used, its significance has been equalled by his fine-lens camera, and added to the work of Raisz and William K. Coburn, assistant in Geographical Exploration, it represents an important scientific effort toward victory. Coburn is noteworthy for work with short-wave radio and trial balloons...