Background
R. Bruce Raup was born in Clark County, Ohio to Gustavas Philip and Fanny Mitchell Raup on March 21, 1888.
R. Bruce Raup was born in Clark County, Ohio to Gustavas Philip and Fanny Mitchell Raup on March 21, 1888.
As a young man he attended public school first in Lagonda and later in Springfield, Ohio.
Like his mentor, Professor Raup is often associated with the pedagogical concept of promoting practical (ie pragmatic) judgment as something appropriate and necessary within the context of a modern democratic society. He was best known for his criticism of the American public education system, which he claimed was inadequate and ineffective in its methods. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at from Wittenberg College in 1909.
From 1916 to 1918, Raup was an instructor in ethics and a college professor at Bellevue College in Nebraska.
During World War I, he served as a military chaplain in the United States. Army. From 1919 ro 1921, he was an Assistant
Professor of Psychology at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois. Raup earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Teachers College in 1926, and remained there until his retirement in 1953.
Raup was actively involved in many professional associations, including: the American Philosophical Association, the National Education Association, the National Society of College Teachers of Education, and the Progressive Education Association.
He was President of the Philosophy of Education Society in 1941. He also served on the Federal Council of Churches in America’s Committee on Education and Research. Robert and Clara Raup had four children: Joan Eliot Raup (b 1926), Ruth Mitchell Raup (b 1927), Robert Bruce Raup, Junior.
(b 1929), and Charlotte Cranch Raup (b 1933).
After he retired in 1953, he moved to Palo Alto, California. He died in Palo Alto on April 13, 1976.
He was, at that time, 88 years old.
