Boyd Henry Bode

Boyd Henry Bode (October 4, 1873 – March 29, 1953) was an American academic and philosopher, notable for his work on philosophy of education.

While at the University of Illinois he published An Outline of Logic, which in the field of philosophy, launched him into becoming a young scholar.

Instead of a typical lecture during class, Bode approached a different way of teaching by questioning and challenging his students.

He was very well liked by his colleagues and this is shown in a quote from Ralph Tyler who worked with him at Ohio State University, “My admiration for his keen intelligence, his persistent questioning, and his ready wit led me to become a good friend of Bode’s.” This quote shows just how well liked and admired Bode was for his significance to education.

Bode felt school and education was to be the establishments which allowed social equality to become a way of life.

Bode retired in 1944 and had several bridge jobs taking positions in Cairo, Egypt, and several universities as a teacher.

In 1946 he accepted an offer of being the graduate lecturer in philosophy at the University of Florida where he spent the rest of his life until his death in 1953.