Jane Addams - Twenty Years at Hull-House
Date Submitted: 11/21/2003 05:19:37
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 2 pages (466 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 2 pages (466 words)
Critical Essay - Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House
The argument Addams makes that "educational matters are more democratic in their political than in their social aspect" (197), I believe she is referring to the long struggle between the teachers and the Chicago School Board. The Chicago School Board was politically corrupt. Many of the teachers and custodial engineers were friends of politicians who secured their positions in exchange for certain kickbacks. The school board maintained …
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…seemed to prefer. Jane Addams' makes an important statement that "The educational activities of a Settlement, as well as its philanthropic, civic, and social undertakings, are but differing manifestations of the attempt to socialize democracy, as is the very existence of the Settlement itself," (206). That illustrates her idea of education, which I believe is what she wanted for the public school system, but was unable to achieve while she was a member of the board.
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