“To compress so much in one volume is a task of no small magnitude, and to say that Professor Dexter has done this with excellent judgment and discrimination is only to give due praise. It is no detraction from the character of the text to say that the most valuable feature of the work is the elaborate bibliography at the end of each chapter and the marginal references which are to be found on every page.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 128. Ja. ‘05. 310w. |
“The best work of its class yet published. So far as it goes, it is most thoroughly and skilfully done.”
| + + + | Critic. 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 100w. |
“The handling of statistics is skilfully done. There is no unity, whole episodes in the history of education are absent, as are also the majority of the important personalities. A more accurate title would have been ‘A historical encyclopedia of American education.’” Henry Davidson Sheldon.
| + — | Dial. 38: 270. Ap. 16, ‘05. 330w. |
“The merits of this book are those of comprehensiveness, organization, accurate analysis and classification, and excellent selection of the material to be included in a single volume dealing with so extended a subject; its demerits are an unfortunate lack of accuracy in many details, not all of them unimportant, and a tendency ... to accept stereotyped generalizations without adducing facts to support them, and the omission of any attempt to interpretation. No other single work, of even more than one volume, has ever attempted so much, so that there is little basis for comparison, and little room for criticism, so helpful is the general result. It is easily first of treatises upon the subject.” Paul Monroe.
| + + — | Educ. R. 29: 202. F. ‘05. 2320w. |
“A work of truly encyclopedic comprehensiveness, but nevertheless readable.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 273. Ag. 3, ‘05. 80w. | |
| + + | Nature. 72: 147. Je. 15, ‘05. 1550w. |