 Harold Rugg

Harold Ordway Rugg (1886-1960) was an educational reformer in the early to mid 1900s, associated with the Progressive education movement.Originally trained in civil engineering at Dartmouth College (BS 1908 & CE 1909), Rugg went on to study psychology, sociology and education at the University of Illinois where he completed a dissertation titled "The Experimental Determination of Mental Discipline in School Studies."