Toward a Reconstructed Philosophy of Education. Theodore Brameld

Chapter I: Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education

“…Such a fighting faith, especially when preached with evangelical fervor, did not go un challenged. Barton (3) wrote a scathing review of Brameld's book, and Gardner (23) declared that the book displayed neither a systematic set of principles nor a systematic methodology. Dupuis (19) addressed himself to the reconstructionists' key mechanism, "social consensus," and claimed it to be an inadequate criterion of truth and a method that might produce a tyranny of the majority.…”