PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Taylor, William
TI  - Toward a Definition of Orthodoxy: THE PATRICIAN SOUTH AND THE COMMON SCHOOLS
AID  - 10.17763/haer.36.4.x5655q740552220n
DP  - 1966 Dec 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 412--426
VI  - 36
IP  - 4
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/36/4/412.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/36/4/412.full
SO  - herp1966 Dec 01; 36
AB  - Of the timeless debate over the aims and means of education, the author traces that portion that was carried on in the antebellum South. He places it in the context of Southern intellectual history and shows how the turn toward a preoccupation with orthodoxy and social control reflected &quot;the society itself—its aspirations, its fears and, in fact, its very attitude toward knowledge itself.&quot;