The Great School Wars of the 1920s

In 1919, Arthur Calhoun's social history of the family informed the nation that the child was passing from the family into the custody of community experts. In 1922, Mayor Heiland of New York City sat in a public speech that the schools had been seized as an octopus would seize its prey by, quote, an invisible government. The 1920s were a boom period for forced schooling as well as for the stock market. A Sociological Philosophy of Education said it is the business of teachers to run not merely the school, but the world.