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Book Reviews: Weber, Lillian. The English Infant School and Informal Education. Engle-wood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971. 276 + xii pp. $7.95 cloth; $4.95 paper.:

Book Reviews: Weber, Lillian. The English Infant School and Informal Education. Engle-wood... Book Reviews had been standardized with the creation of a practical milk separator that detected the watering down of milk; cows had been standardized through breeding practices that eliminated dual purpose cows and substituted breeds of beef cattle for meat and breeds of milk cows for milk, cheese and butter. Yet the university was not content with simply helping the farmer. Steffins reports the university sought to conserve and develop human resources as well as natural resources. This might lead to the question: If superior breeds of cattle and oats could be developed and standardized, why no t create superior breeds of human beings as well? Unfortunately at this critical juncture Steffins and the Portraits are mute. They fail to ask this question. Yet the university and its spokesmen were quite vocal about breeding better human stock. President Van Hise vigorously promoted the doctrine that defective human stock could be eliminated as readily as defective cattle. As Mark H. Haller points out in his Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought (Rutgers University Press, 1963), Van Hise commented in 1914: "We know enough about agriculture so that the agricultural production could be doubled if the knowledge were applied; we know http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Educational Research Journal SAGE

Book Reviews: Weber, Lillian. The English Infant School and Informal Education. Engle-wood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971. 276 + xii pp. $7.95 cloth; $4.95 paper.:

Chittenden, Edward A.
American Educational Research Journal , Volume 10 (3): 3 – Nov 23, 2016
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Book Reviews had been standardized with the creation of a practical milk separator that detected the watering down of milk; cows had been standardized through breeding practices that eliminated dual purpose cows and substituted breeds of beef cattle for meat and breeds of milk cows for milk, cheese and butter. Yet the university was not content with simply helping the farmer. Steffins reports the university sought to conserve and develop human resources as well as natural resources. This might lead to the question: If superior breeds of cattle and oats could be developed and standardized, why no t create superior breeds of human beings as well? Unfortunately at this critical juncture Steffins and the Portraits are mute. They fail to ask this question. Yet the university and its spokesmen were quite vocal about breeding better human stock. President Van Hise vigorously promoted the doctrine that defective human stock could be eliminated as readily as defective cattle. As Mark H. Haller points out in his Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought (Rutgers University Press, 1963), Van Hise commented in 1914: "We know enough about agriculture so that the agricultural production could be doubled if the knowledge were applied; we know

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