"[1] David C. Berliner, Regents' Professor of Education at Arizona State University, called Gage "the father of the field of research on teaching.
"[2] Nathaniel Lees Gewirtz was born in Union City, New Jersey, in 1917, his mother and father were both Polish immigrants; his eventual name change is explained below.
Gewirtz's duties included making food pellets used to reinforce the behavior of Skinner's laboratory rats.
During World War II, Gage spent two years in the Army, where he joined the aviation psychology program and he developed aptitude tests for choosing navigators and radar observers.
"Teaching is properly done by hunch, by intuition, by experience, by ideology; what it also needs is a basis in scientific research," he explained back in 1987 in his interview for the Stanford News Service.
He also contributed numerous research articles in journals throughout the field, including "Confronting Counsels of Despair for the Behavioral Sciences,"[6] which was first published in April 1996.
[8] Upon his retirement from active teaching in 1987, Gage became a professor emeritus, and still worked at his office five days a week.