RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Toward a Definition of Orthodoxy: THE PATRICIAN SOUTH AND THE COMMON SCHOOLS
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 412
OP 426
DO 10.17763/haer.36.4.x5655q740552220n
VO 36
IS 4
A1 Taylor, William
YR 1966
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/36/4/412.abstract
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 "the society itself—its aspirations, its fears and, in fact, its very attitude toward knowledge itself."