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WALLAS, Graham was born on May 31, 1858 in Sunderland. Son of Reverend G. I. Wallas, afterwards Rector of Shobrooke, Devon.
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Graham Wallas (31 May 1858 - 9 August 1932) was an English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist, a leader of the Fabian Society and a co-founder of the London School of Economics Wallas joined the Fabian Society in April 1886, following his acquaintances Sidney Webb and George Bernard Shaw. He was to resign in 1904 in protest at Fabian support for Joseph Chamberlain's tariff policy. Wallas argued in Great Society (1914) that a social-psychological analysis could explain the problems created by the impact of the industrial revolution on modern society. He contrasts the role of nature and nurture in modern society, concluding that humanity must depend largely on the improvements in nurture, and put his faith in the development of stronger international operation. Here are a few excepts from Wallas's preface to this book: The Greek thinkers started modern civilization, because they insisted that the trading populations of their walled cities should force themselves to think out an answer to the question, what kind of life is good. 'The origin of the city-state,' says Aristotle, 'is that it enables us to live; its justification is that it enables us to live well.' Within each nation, industrial organization may cease to be a confused and wasteful struggle of interests, if it is consciously related to a chosen way of life for which it offers to every worker the material means. International relations may cease to consist of a constant plotting of evil by each nation for its neighbors, if ever the youth of all nations know that French, and British, and Germans, and Russians, and Chinese, and Americans, are taking a conscious part in the great adventure of discovering ways of living open to all, and which all can believe to be good.
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WALLAS, Graham was born on May 31, 1858 in Sunderland. Son of Reverend G. I. Wallas, afterwards Rector of Shobrooke, Devon.
Studied at Shrewsbury School, 1871-1877. Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1877- 1881. Classical scholar; second class Literae Humaniores, 1881.
Classical schoolmaster, 1881-1890.
University Extension Lecturer since 1890.
lieutenant was at Oxford that Wallas abandoned his religion. He taught at Highgate School until 1885, when he resigned rather than participate in communion, and was President of the Rationalist Press Association. Wallas joined the Fabian Society in April 1886, following his acquaintances Sidney Webb and George Bernard Shaw.
He was to resign in 1904 in protest at Fabian support for Joseph Chamberlain"s tariff policy.
In 1894 he was elected to the London school board as a Progressive, becoming chairman of the board"s school management committee in 1897, and until he was defeated in 1907 the encouragement of educational reform and the raising of academic standards in state schools was one of his main activities. He was appointed a university extension lecturer in 1890 and lectured at the newly founded London School of Economics from 1895.
In 1898 he published a biography of the early nineteenth-century utilitarian radical Francis Place. His most important academic writings were Human Nature in Politics (1908) and its successors The Great Society (1914) and Our Social Heritage 1921).
Wallas argued in Great Society (1914) that a social-psychological analysis could explain the problems created by the impact of the industrial revolution on modern society.
He contrasts the role of nature and nurture in modern society, concluding that humanity must depend largely on the improvements in nurture, and put his faith in the development of stronger international operation. In The Art of Thought (1926), he proposed one of the first models of the creative process (consisting of preparation, incubation, intimation, illumination, and verification).
Wallas is known for his contributions to the development of an empirical approach to the study of human behaviour, political science, the psychology of politics, and his pioneering work on human creativity.
He was a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
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Fabian Society; London School Board.
Spouse 1897, Ada Radford.
