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Period:
1893-1918
1
Reaffirming the
Traditional
Curriculum
The committee of Ten
◎ influenced by Charles Eliot and William Harris.
◎ wanted the traditional curriculum to remain intact
◎ the committee adopted Eliot’s plan to reduce
elementary grades from 10 to 8 and stressed the
three R’s.
The Committee of Fifteen
◎ Chaired by Eliot, most influential of the three
committees.
◎ Identified nine academic subjects as central to the
high school curriculum. (Latin, Greek, English, other
modern languages, mathematics, physical sciences,
natural history or biological sciences, social science,
and geography, geology, and meteorology
◎ The committee ignored art, music, physical education,
and vocational education, believed that these
contributed little to mental discipline.
The Committee on College entrance
requirements
◎ U.S. Commissioner of
Education (1889 – 1906)
◎ A traditionalist who subscribed to McGuffey’s moralism and
Mann’s faith in free public school.
◉ Believed that;
- students should work with their minds, not with
their hands.