Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1868 – 1941) was an American educator and author for which the Cubberley Community Center was named. He was also president of Vincennes University and held a number of senior administrative positions in education in the San Diego area in California.

Cubberley was born in Andrews, Indiana. He graduated from Indiana University in 1891, he then served as president of Vincennes University from 1891 until 1896, and was then superintendent of schools from 1896 until 1898 in San Diego. He then went on to join the faculty of Stanford, and gained a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1905, before returning to the faculty in 1906 as professor of education and then later in 1917 the dean of the school of education, until he retired in 1933.

During his career, he maintained a view of education as an instrument of social engineering, a view that created some controversy. ["Ellwood Patterson Cubberley" [http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/Cambridge/entries/067/Ellwood-Patterson-Cubberley.html Online Encyclopedia] retrieved on April 4 2007] Cubberley published a total of 30 works during his life, including:

* "Syllabus of Lectures on the History of Education", 1902
* "Changing Conceptions in Education", 1909
* "Public Education in the United States", 1919
* "The History of Education", 1920
* "Readings in the History of Education", 1920
* "A Brief History of Education", 1922
* "Public School Administration", 1929
* "Public Education in the United States", republished in 1947

Famous Quotations

"We should give up the exceedingly democratic idea that all are equal and that our society is devoid of classes. The employee tends to remain an employee; the wage earner tends to remain a wage earner."

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Research resources

* [http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7h4nb2pj Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Papers, 1886-1965] (3.25 linear ft.) are housed in the [http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html Department of Special Collections and University Archives] at [http://library.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Libraries]

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