Bionomics and Public Schooling

By 1900, a special discipline existed at Indiana only for elite students handpicked by the college president who had created and taught the course. Bionomics gets its direct connection with forced government schooling in this fashion. When he left Indiana, Jordan took along with him to Stanford, his star Bionomics protégé, a 24-year-old named Elwood Coverley. And within two decades, he was the head of a syndicate controlling school administrative posts from coast to coast. He was the most influential schoolman in 20th century American history.