15/13/72 Guide to the Mortimer B. Smith Papers Mortimer B. Smith Papers

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Guide to the Mortimer B. Smith Papers 1949/1981 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Mortimer B. Smith Papers 1949-81 15/13/72 Smith, Mortimer Brewster, 1906-1981 1.00 English University of Illinois Archives
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This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Genre/Form of Material: Papers Topical Term: Afghanistan -- Education Council for Basic Education Dewey, John Life Adjustment Progressive Education Public Schools Reading Regnery, Henry Teaching
Administrative Information Accruals:

10/15/1982

Arrangement of Materials:

by type of material and chronological or alphabetical thereunder

Scope and Contents

Papers of Mortimer B. Smith (1906-81), co-founder, editor (1957-74) and executive director (1960-74) of the Council for Basic Education (CBE) including correspondence, minutes and documents relating to the founding of CBE; correspondence relating to the publication of The Public Schools in Crisis (1953-56); correspondence with CBE directors and supporters (1950-81); retirement letters (1974); books, articles, book reviews and manuscripts speeches by Smith (1949-74, 1979); articles about CBE and Smith (1966, 1971, 1979) and articles by others (1961-74). The series includes Smith's And Madly Teach (1949), The Diminished Mind (1954) and The Public Schools in Crisis (1956) and correspondence with Arthur Bestor, Mrs. Barry Bingham, Harold Clapp, Gordon Chalmers, James J. Kirkpatrick, Henry Regnery, Kenneth S. Templeton of the Volker Fund and others. Writings and letters relate to basic intellectual disciplines, John Dewey, educators, "life adjustment," moral education, progressive education, public schools, publishing, reading, schools, teacher education and related topics.