William Henry Heck
William Henry Heck was a faculty member of the University of Virginia. He was a part of the Curry Memorial School of Education and was a key figure in the eugenics movement at the university. [1]
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Early Life
Heck was born in 1879 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He earned his bachelor’s in 1897 and his master’s in 1899 from Wake Forest College. He later attended Columbia’s Teachers College where he encountered ideas of educational theory and science. At the time, Columbia University was emerging as a center of eugenical thought and research.[2]
Career
With Edwin A. Alderman at the University of Virginia, Heck became a prominent educator in Virginia. Between 1905 and 1919, Heck worked alongside Alderman as a key reformer in education at UVA. Heck created the first course based on eugenics at the University of Virginia. His work in the education school was focused on eugenics. In a work titled Mental Discipline and Educational Values Heck connected heredity and education, arguing that genetics played an important role in the learning process. Ivey Foreman Lewis, a professor of biology at UVA, later worked to preserve Heck’s influence on the University.[2]
References
- ↑ Web. Eugenics at the University of Virginia, Article, Encyclopedia Virginia, retrieved June 13, 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Book. [ Segregation's Science], Gregory M. Dorr, Uiversity of Virginia Press, retrieved June 12, 2024.