To wrap up my Summer 2025 blog series featuring a number of speeches given at Progressive Education Association (PEA) annual meetings held in the late 1930s, I present complete electronic scans of the booklets to all who find mutual excitement and curiosity about learning from the progressive education movement’s history. For those of you who missed my first blog in this series, I stumbled upon the PEA booklets during a trip to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library. Nestled on the same shelf as another book I was looking for lay a stack of eight delicate publications titled, “PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION BOOKLET: PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION”.

This blog is the third in a series to disseminate a number of speeches given at the Progressive Education Association (PEA) annual meetings in the late 1930s. The Progressive Education Association 1937 – On Teacher Happiness , Excerpts On Progressive Education from “The Contribution of Education to the Improvement of Human Relations” By Mary Shattuck Fisher 1937, and Will Machines Replace Humans? Why This Question (and Others) Are Not New For Progressive Educators. The PEA was a networked group of individuals who were dedicated to the spread of progressive education in American schools from 1919 to 1955. I recently discovered a stack of booklets at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library containing the published lectures and I’ve been eagerly reading them throughout the summer as they prove to be rich in ideas and essential to the organization’s guiding objectives:

In two previous blogs, The Progressive Education Association 1937 – On Teacher Happiness and Excerpts On Progressive Education from “The Contribution of Education to the Improvement of Human Relations” By Mary Shattuck Fisher 1937, I recounted my story of discovering a number of “Progressive Education Booklets” published by the Progressive Education Association (PEA) in the late 1930s. Established in 1919, the PEA was a networked group of individuals who were dedicated to the spread of progressive education in American public schools up until 1955. This included expanding the reach of progressive education philosophy and pedagogy and engaging members in critical discussions about the social and political issues of the day. In my November 5, 2024 blog I shared how each booklet contained the transcripts of speeches given at national PEA conferences, and how they each had this similar inscription (with small differences depending on the date and location of the meeting the booklet was documenting) explaining: