Paul Klapper (1885–1952) was an American educator and the first president of Queens College of the City University of New York. Public information about his life is limited, and only one of his works, College Teaching, is held in the collection. Judging from its title and subject, Klapper focused on the practice of teaching in higher education rather than on purely theoretical speculation about education, which fits his background as a university administrator in close contact with day-to-day teaching. The book addresses college teachers and education researchers, discussing classroom methods and problems in a practical, concrete manner rather than building an abstract system. Because his published output is small, his influence on the history of educational thought is not wide; his writings are better seen as a partial record of early twentieth-century American research on college teaching, offering some reference value for understanding contemporary concerns about teaching quality in higher education.
