William Heard Kilpatrick
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William Heard Kilpatrick (20 November 1871 – 13 February 1965) was a US American paedagogue and a pupil, a colleague and a successor of John Dewey.
Kilpatrick was born in White Plains, Georgia and was educated at Mercer University and Johns Hopkins University where he later became a mathematics teacher at High School and at Mercer University. He first met John Dewey in 1898 and again met him in 1907. Kilpatrick decided to make philosophy of education his speciality and occupied all courses by Dewey. From this developed a co-operation, which persisted up to Dewey's death in 1952.
Kilpatrick died in New York, 1965.
[edit] Literature
- John A. Beineke: And there were giants in the land : the life of William Heard Kilpatrick. New York : P. Lang 1998 ISBN 0-8204-3773-5
- Heinrich Pfeiffer: The people picture with William Heard Kilpatrick . Mainz 1956 (thesis)
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Kilpatrick, the son of a Baptist minister, was a philosophic naturalist and atheist, a progressive educator who disliked the term "paedagogue."
