Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
I want to start these remarks by thanking the members of the History of Education Society for the honor of electing me to serve as president and especially my colleagues—faculty and graduate students—at New York University who have made NYU such an extraordinarily collegial home to study the History of Education. Finally I want to say a word of gratitude to my own teacher and mentor, Lawrence A. Cremin, who introduced me to this field and guided my early work. In the course of these remarks, I will be critical of him at points, but Larry Cremin remains my role model as a teacher, scholar, and kind friend. I suspect I may be—though one never knows—the last of a long line of Cremin students to preside over HES. But I do so proudly.
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