George S. Counts

1889-1974

Social Reconstructionism

Counts said that schools are driven by the forces that transform the rest of the social order rather than the school directing the change. Schools can not be reformed without effort, struggle and sacrifice. Counts believed that education should strive to promote the fullest and most \ thorough understanding of the world. He also believed that facts should not be suppressed or distorted. One of his quotes said, “All education contains a large element of imposition, a case which is inevitable and in the existence and evolution of society, educators have a major professional obligation.”

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