Adoniram Judson Ladd

Adoniram Judson Ladd was an American professor of education who lived from 1861 to 1932. Public-domain library records and author pages identify him as a writer on education, and On the Firing Line in Education presents him as a professor of education at the State University of North Dakota.

His writing belongs to a period when schools and universities were being asked to respond to rapid social change. In On the Firing Line in Education, published in 1919, he argues that education should be active, practical, and socially responsible rather than merely formal or routine.

Ladd is remembered today mainly through that book and a smaller body of public-domain work. For listeners interested in the history of education, his voice offers a clear window into how American educators of his era thought about reform, citizenship, and the purpose of schooling.