Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Francis Wayland Parker

American Educator and Pioneer in the Progressive School Movement

"The end and aim of all education is the development of character."

"That nation shall endure forever whose people have entered the paths of self-control and world-wide sympathy."

"The needs of the society determine the work of the school... the supreme need of society is good citizenship... ideal citizenship demands of the individual the highest degree of knowledge, power and skill."