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Like
many of the huge palaces at the 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair, the Palace
of Education and Social Economy was bathed at night with electrical lighting.
to dramatize Edison's crowning achievement just twenty-five years before.
Here the story of the Louisiana Purchase and the settlement of the West was
of primary importance. Inside the palace education as practiced both in the U.S. and in many other countries was on display. Much of it was divided up
into four major categories, Primary, Secondary, Higher and Special Education
for the blind and the deaf and dumb.
With
the world of the twentieth century rapidly changing from an agrarian based
to an Industrial Economy, the Architects of the World's Fair stressed working
hard at learning new skills deemed necessary for survival in the new economy.
Outside the palace were the buildings occupying Model Street which depicted
a Utopian vision of how future generations could live in an increasingly urbanized
society. Implicit was American leadership as the frontrunner of twentieth
century nations moving rapidly towards better methods of educating their citizens.
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