the advancement of liberty, equality, and fraternity, in that complementarity and tension that mark the relations among them in a free society....The aspirations of American education have been more noble than base, and that its performance over the past two centuries has been more liberating of a greater diversity of human energies and potentialities than has been the case in most other eras and in most other places. Publications The American Common School: An Historic Conception. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1951, OCLC 01330861 The Wonderful World of Ellwood Patterson Cubberley: An Essay On The Historiography of American Education. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1965. The Genius of American Education. University of Pittsburg Press, 1965. LCCN 65-28146 Public Education Traditions of American Education American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607-1783 American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980 References Bibliography (book review) (interview with Cremin) Kelly, Matthew Gardner. "The mythology of schooling: the historiography of American and European education in comparative perspective." Paedagogica Historica 50.6 (2014): 756-773. (book review) (fulltext) (fulltext) External links (video of interview with Cremin) Lawrence A. Cremin Papers, 1932-2007 at Columbia University, New York, NY Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Columbia University faculty Teachers College, Columbia University faculty Historians of the United States Pulitzer Prize for History winners 1925 births 1990 deaths American historians of education Scholars of American education Townsend Harris High School alumni 20th-century American historians Education school deans 20th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers Historians from New York (state) Bancroft Prize winners Members of the American Philosophical Society