92: Paul Geheeb and the School of Humanity

<p>Today we’re doing something a bit different. I was checking my email a few months ago, and I have Google Scholar set up to send me articles about progressive education, and this name showed up I had never heard of before: Paul Geheeb. Geheeb was a German school leader who led a progressive school at the advent of the Nazi seizure of power. The story is wildly interesting in terms of historical significance as well as progressive pedagogy, as Geheeb led a self-directed school centered on learning by doing. We’ve gathered information about the relatively unknown life of Paul Geheeb, and we wanted to present this to you. Enjoy.</p><br><p>*Not stated in the episode, but relevant information due to Odenwaldschule's recent closure. "Odenwaldschule" is a separate entity from the Odenwaldschule Gaheeb opened in 1910. It was then reopened under the same name in the 1930s by the Nazi party, which continued to operate until a series of sexual abuse scandals in the 2010s.</p><p><br></p><h3>CITATIONS</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/23767852?seq=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">With Paul Geheeb from the "Odenwaldschule" to the "Ecole d'Humanité" by Edward Diller, 1983</a></li><li><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336219203_Paul_Geheeb_and_Nazi_Germany_Progressive_Education_in_the_Age_of_Fascism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Paul Geheeb and Nazi Germany: Progressive Education in the Age of Fascism in Historians on Leadership and Strategy by Ashley Curtis, 2020</a></li><li><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2753/EUE1056-4934290134" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Paul Geheeb and the école d'Humanité in Switzerland by Hans-Ulrich Grunder, 2014</a></li><li><a href="https://www.oecd.org/finland/Better-Life-Initiative-country-note-Finland.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">OECD Country Notes, Finland</a>; <a href="https://www.oecd.org/statistics/Better-Life-Initiative-country-note-United-States.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_bla