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...assign the armed forces publicity personnel to commanding men (if and when qualified) instead of commanding typewriters and mimeograph machines. The "old" Army fought and won two pretty good wars without having generals of publicity telling the enemy and the American people what they were going...
...weak tutorial, it would have to claim that the tutors and their teaching techniques are above improvement; something which they could not possibly claim at present. In some departments tutors merely follow a pre-ordained program which holds no more interest for them than for their students. Many departments assign tutors to teach a field about which they have little knowledge and less interest. Such men, forced to teach in an area they do not like and required to adhere to a curriculum they did not desire, can hardly be expected to stimulate their students toward greater achievement...
...dominated by bearded Germans who write learned and dry monographs. Although graduate studies in the field deal with minutiae more intensely than is to some people's taste, there is no reason for the classics to be so solely the possession of specialists. Other courses are not ashamed to assign Tolstoy and Dostoievsky in translation...
...Pupil Placement Act removed from local school boards and division superintendents all power to assign pupils, and placed it in the hands of a state board...
...majority of the schools give frequent tests and examinations, assign long hours of homework, spend generously on their libraries. They are not afraid to injure young psyches by publishing academic honors or assigning students to groups according to ability. About half the schools give superior students college-level work. Only one principal bothered to mention his physical plant as a major asset; only a few mentioned extracurricular activities. But their comments spoke volumes: "I am never happy except with superior work." "We simply refuse to accept mediocrity." "We started high and raised our standards from year to year." "When...