Son Herman (2 results)

Wraps. Condition: Very Good+. Photographs (illustrator). Signed by author, in black ink, on title page. Immaculate and tight, gift quality copy. 316p. Footnotes and bibliography at end. Signed by Author. Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Edwards & Broughton, Raleigh, NC, 1926. V, 165 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates. Signed and inscribed by Herman Harrell Horne on the FFEP. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Herman Horne was one of America's most outstanding educational thinkers in his day. As a scholar, a philosopher, a gentleman, and a Christian, perhaps he was best known for his vigorous opposition to John Dewey and progressive education. While Dewey was one of the leading proponents of Instrumentalism, Horne was a leading representative of the Idealistic philosophy of education, a school of thought that dominated American philosophy from the mid-nineteenth century well into the twentieth century. Although idealism fell from favor in more recent times, it exercised a decided influence on American schools and the theory of education, and it continues to have moderate influence in religious education. Basically, idealism, as articulated by Horne, "holds to the centrality of the freedom of will, but it also recognizes that the individual is not an isolated entity; rather, the individual is a part of a larger whole" (Grimke & Howells, 1998, p. 503). EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.