Word: schairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America gathered last week to sketch a brave new post-war world-a world in which education would play a role denied it at Versailles. Like certain famous beer-hall conferences conducted some 20 years ago, this conference had a leader-a tubby, broad-shouldered ex-German named Reinhold Schairer-and a conspiratorial air, but its ideology was far different. In the minds of the conferees the outlines of a new world order took definite shape; an organization to establish it had already been born...
...while delegates talked, Reinhold Schairer and his fellow conspirators retired to a conference room to put their dreams on paper. It was an oddly assorted group: small, baldish John Bell Condliffe, eminent Australian economist now teaching at University of California; Ivor Armstrong Richards (Basic English), of Cambridge University and Harvard; Progressive Educator William Heard Kilpatrick, of Columbia University's Teachers College, and his vigorous wife; dark young Philosophy Professor Max Black, of University of Illinois; stocky young Robert Bauer, an Austrian youth leader; bush-browed Malcolm MacLean, president of Hampton Institute; others of whose practical idealism Leader Schairer felt...
...meeting represented four years of Schairer planning. An authority on European education and youth, he ran a central student-aid bureau for German universities from 1921-33, launched a Werkstudenten movement whereby thousands of poor boys were enabled to attend universities. When Nazis seized his bureau headquarters and its $6,000,000 treasury in 1933, he fled Germany. In 1937 he became head of London University's Department of International Studies. Already expecting World War II, Dr. Schairer and a few fellow educators began to plan for another post-war world...
Bell-clear to Dr. Schairer were two causes of Germany's (and Europe's) disaster: 1) unemployment of youth; 2) failure of the Versailles peacemakers to give any thought to post-war education. Dr. Schairer also thought he knew a remedy for Europe's ills: the highly successful Danish educational system and economy. Feature of this system was Denmark's Folk Schools, which taught Danish peasants breadth of vision, thus making them better democrats, by means of poetry, history, religion. From the Folk School movement sprang agricultural schools, cooperatives, a new system of dairy (instead...
...Schairer's ideas won support among British educators. A year ago he arrived in the U.S., soon formed a U.S. Committee on Educational Reconstruction. Famed Frank Aydelotte, ex-president of Swarthmore, became its chairman, and Dr. Schairer got a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation to finance his studies. By last week he had addressed 140,000 U.S. citizens from coast to coast, won many a bigwig to his cause...