Background
William was born on March 6, 1864 in New York City, New York, United States, a son of Henry and Mary Moat Murdock Jordan.
(Man has two creators,—his God and himself. His first crea...)
Man has two creators,—his God and himself. His first creator furnishes him the raw material of his life and the laws in conformity with which he can make that life what he will. His second creator,—himself,—has marvellous powers he rarely realizes. It is what a man makes of himself that counts. When a man fails in life he usually says, “I am as God made me.” When he succeeds he proudly proclaims himself a “self-made man.” Man is placed into this world not as a finality,—but as a possibility. Man’s greatest enemy is,—himself. Man in his weakness is the creature of circumstances; man in his strength is the creator of circumstances. Whether he be victim or victor depends largely on himself. Man is never truly great merely for what he is, but ever for what he may become. Until man be truly filled with the knowledge of the majesty of his possibility, until there come to him the glow of realization of his privilege to live the life committed to him, as an individual life for which he is individually responsible, he is merely groping through the years.
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William was born on March 6, 1864 in New York City, New York, United States, a son of Henry and Mary Moat Murdock Jordan.
His higher schooling was obtained in the College of the City of New York, but he did not graduate.
In 1886-87 Jordan was the editor of Book Chat and later of Current Literature and of the Saturday Evening Post (1898 - 99).
Meanwhile he had developed a keen interest in educational reform and for a time withdrew from editorial work to lecture on "Mental Training by Analysis, Law, and Analogy. " In 1905-06 he was editor of the Search-Light and, observing the need of greater uniformity in state legislation, he proposed the organization of the state executives into a House of Governors to work for that object. At the conference of governors on conservation called by President Roosevelt in May 1908, a committee was named to arrange for a permanent organization and the first meeting of the actual House of Governors was held two years later. The project, as it was actually worked out, however, was described by the Nation (May 21, 1908) as "merely one of those devices to collect and express public opinion and to forward good causes, in which American political genius has always been fruitful. "
Jordan wrote and published a series of homilies that attained a greater popularity than is usually the lot of essays on such hackneyed topics - The Kingship of Self-Control (1899), The Power of Truth (1902), The Crown of Individuality (1909), Little Problems of Married Life (1910), The Trusteeship of Life (1921), The Vision of High Ideals (1926).
In 1919 he brought out a pamphlet summarizing objections to America's joining the League of Nations (What Every American Should Know About the League of Nations). He retained to the last his convictions, formed early in life, as to the essential inconsistency and wastefulness of the American educational system and contributed to the Forum March-June 1923) four articles that summed up his thought on the subject.
He died of pneumonia in New York City.
William George Jordan was popular as the author of a number of personal improvement and self-help books in the early 1900s, one of the most popular being The Majesty of Calmness. All his books had a good sale for years. Besides being a first-rate editor and writer he is an admirable lecturer, as his vigorous addresses and publications.
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His writtings were characterized by simplicity and clarity of statement, often by humor.
Jordan developed a keen interest in educational reform. His attacks on the evils of cramming with indigestible facts and the ignoring of true intellectual discipline were supported by not a few educationists; but he lacked a program that appealed to school administrators as constructively practical.
Quotations: "There are two great things that education should do for the individual - It should train his senses, and teach him to think. Education, as we know it to-day, does not truly do either; it gives the individual only a vast accumulation of facts, unclassified, undigested, and seen in no true relations. Like seeds kept in a box, they may be retained, but they do not grow. "
On May 6, 1922, Jordan married Nell Mitchell of New York, who survived him.
