Ann Giles Benson and Frank Adams.
On January 15th, 2000 appeared the second edition of this noted work (dated as of 1999). The main text is as originally presented, albeit reset and with minor changes in arrangement. A new Index centers around Royce Pitkin's educational and general philosophies; a new Preface to the Second Edition describes its intent and recent history, and an Independent Study approach is noted on the back cover. Through these and with some imagination on the parts of readers the ambience of the work may be seen to move from the historical emphasis of the first edition to the realm of the philosophical. It reaches for Tim Pitkin's general philosophy, the fundamental general ideas he took for granted and for which he labored all his life. His reflective system is seen to be closely related to drama, the infinite spectacle of life individually lived. It gathers itself aroundcenters represented in the lives of people. Tim's educational philosophy and praxis derived from these grounds. Who knows most about this? Most urgently, do they know that they know? Built into the foundations of Goddard from 1938 to 1969, what has become of them? These are the great questions which rise before us. Where the first edition crystallized the past, the second addresses the future. The present generation has the resources and the judgment to rise to this new challenge. It must know that it can do so.
Hardbound. $25.00. 219 p. ISBN 0-912362-20-0
Ann Giles Benson and Frank Adams.
However many editions there come to be of To Know For Real, their objective will be to present an oral history of the great 31-year presidency of of Dr. Royce S. Pitkin at Goddard College, latest of the 20th century progressive education colleges in Vermont and New England. Its difficult rise and its impact on American higher education began here in 1938. Based on interviews with Tim Pitkin by the two authors, Rev. Ann Giles Benson and Dr. Frank Adams in the mid-1970s and drawing on Tim's extensive writings about and for the College, this title in its first edition (1987) became the famous "Goddard book", still unchallenged and still challenging other viewpoints and intyerpretations of the real concerns of higher education in America - and of education in general.
This edition went out of print in 1987 and is available only in libraries and the second hand market.
Hardbound. $---- / 288 p. / ISBN 0-912362-06-5