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Source Book Of The History Of Education For The Greek And Roman Period
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Source Book Of The History Of Education For The Greek And Roman Period
Paul Monroe
The Macmillan co., 1906
Education
Paul Monroe was born on June 7, 1869, in North Madison, Indiana. He was the older of two sons of William Y. Monroe, a Baptist clergyman of Scots-Irish ancestry, and Juliet (Williams) Monroe, a native of Indiana whom his father married after the death of his first wife, who had borne him nine children, six boys and three girls. William Monroe was a captain during the Civil War and active in local political affairs, serving as sheriff, county treasurer, and representative in the statelegislature.
Education
After Paul's freshman year at Hanover College in Madison, the family moved to Franklin, Indiana, where he was graduated from Baptist Franklin College with the B. S. degree (1890).
Career
Monroe became a high school principal in Hopewell (1890 - 1891) and Martinsville (1891 - 1894), Indiana. In 1894, Monroe went to the University of Chicago to study sociology and political science; he was awarded a fellowship the following year and received his Ph. D. in 1897. He accepted a position as instructor of history at Teachers College, which had recently affiliated with Columbia University but was still virtually a small normal school. Following Dean James Earl Russell's suggestion that he concentrate on education, Monroe became an adjunct professor of history of education in 1899, studied at the University of Heidelberg in 1901, and was promoted to full professor in 1902.
Monroe did not complete his own magnum opus, The Founding of the American Public School System, until 1940. Having made his pioneering contributions in the history of education, Monroe turned his attention to administration, serving as director of the School of Education at Teachers College (1915 - 1923), and international education. In 1913, he made a survey of the Philippine school system for the United States government and visited Chinese colleges at the request of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. After World War I, he conducted many studies of education in foreign countries for President Wilson. Monroe returned to China in 1921 to help the government modernize its educational system. An authority on China, he served on the Boxer Indemnity Board and was a co-founder and president of the China Institute of America. Monroe always had a special interest in the foreign students in his classes and sought to better prepare them for educational leadership in their own countries. He proposed and directed (1923 - 1938) the International Institute of Education at Teachers College, a successful pioneering venture in international education. Several thousand foreign students attended institute courses.
Monroe lectured in foreign universities and conducted numerous educational surveys at the invitation of other countries. The institute disseminated many of his studies in its annual Educational Yearbook. Under the auspices of the institute, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Carnegie Foundation, Monroe organized a series of international conferences on examinations (1931, 1935, 1938) and edited three volumes of conference proceedings. Monroe was named Barnard professor of education in 1925. While on a leave of absence, he served as president of Istanbul Woman's College and Robert College in Turkey (1932 - 1935).
Monroe died in Goshen, New York, of myocardial degeneration and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown, New York.
Achievements
Monroe established himself as the leading historian of education in America. He published several books within a few years, his Textbook in the History of Education (1905) and Brief Course in the History of Education (1907) being the most successful and influential. They were based on primary sources and were more thorough and scholarly than earlier textbooks in the field, dealing with both theory and practice and putting education in the broader context of the history of civilization. Monroe's most significant achievement was the comprehensive five-volume Cyclopedia of Education (1911 - 1913). As editor-in-chief, he developed the plan of organization. Articles were contributed by more than a thousand scholars, including John Dewey, the departmental editor for philosophy of education articles. The monumental work systematically organized knowledge in the field when education was emerging as a discipline and thereby contributed to its development and professionalization. It is still the best encyclopedia of education in English and remains an invaluable reference work for educational historians.
More than any other individual, Monroe established the discipline of history of education in America. He maintained high standards of scholarship in his graduate seminars, training a generation of educators in methods of historical research and application of the scientific method. Many of his students became eminent historians and educators, including Ellwood P. Cubberley, Alexander Inglis, I. L. Kandel, William H. Kilpatrick, Edgar W. Knight, Jesse Sears, Henry Suzzallo, and W. Thomas Woody. Nearly one-fourth of the doctoral dissertations at Teachers College in the years 1899-1921 were in the history of education. The products of Monroe's seminars constitute an impressive scholarly contribution. Many of the dissertations trace the development of educational institutions and focus on the public schools, reflecting the social evolutionism and institutionalism that pervaded the thought of the day. Monroe's influence and Cubberley's successful textbook Public Education in the United States (1919) shaped the interpretationof American educational history for decades. He became professor emeritus at Columbia in 1935. A founder and president of the World Federation of Education Associations (1931-1933, 1935 - 1943), Monroe was a trustee of several foreign colleges and received five honorary degrees, as well as decorations and awards from a number of foreign governments.
Quotations:
"If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country. "
Personality
Of medium height, Monroe had an oval face, high forehead, gray eyes, Roman nose, and a fair complexion. In his later years, glasses and gray hair contributed to a distinguished appearance. Congenial and empathetic, Paul Monroe was respected by both students and colleagues for his humanity, love of learning, and devotion to education.
Connections
Monroe married Mary Emma Ellis of Franklin on August 26, 1891. They had three children: Juliet, Ellis, and Jeanette. The Monroes made their home in Yonkers, New York, moving after his retirement to Garrison, New York.
