Many progressive educators were also opposed to social reconstructionism. Many were "administrative progressives," who believed schools should be run like businesses. They took offense at the social reconstructionist attack on business. Educators such as David Snedden, Franklin Bobbitt, William Wirt, and Werrett Wallace Charters viewed the Depression as a natural fluctuation in the business cycle. They believed schools should use the Depression as an occasion for increased efficiency and derided the reconstructionists as "romantics" and "utopians." Burton P. Fowler of Tower Hill School in.....
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