Download or read book Dare the School Build a New Social Order? written by George Sylvester Counts and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George S. Counts was amajor figure in American education for almost fifty years. Republication of this early (1932) work draws special attention to Counts's role as a social and political activist. Three particular themes make the book noteworthy because of their importance in Counts's plan for change as well as for their continuing contem­porary importance: (1)Counts's crit­icism of child-centered progressives; (2)the role Counts assigns to teachers in achieving educational and social re­form; and (3) Counts's idea for the re­form of the American economy.