True Believers And The Unspeakable Chautauqua

A very small group of young psychologists around the turn of the century were able to create and market a system for measuring human talent that has permeated American institutions of learning, and influenced such fundamental social concepts as democracy, sanity, justice, welfare, reproductive rights, and economic progress. In creating, owning, and advertising this social technology, the testers created themselves as professionals.[p.214 →]

— Joanne Brown, The Definition of a Profession: The Authority of Metaphor in the History of Intelligence Testing

I have undertaken to get at the facts from the point of view of the business men-—citizens of the community who, after all, pay the bills and, therefore, have a right to say what they shall have in their schools.[p.11 →]

— Charles H. Thurber, from an address at the Annual Meeting of the National Education Association, July 9, 1897