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...Incoherent judgments, philosophic misunderstanding, neglect of history, and practical omissions" are the charges levelled against "General Education in a Free Society" by Jacques Barzun, associate professor of History at Columbia University, in the current issue of "The Atlantic Monthly...
From his years on the platform, Teacher Barzun draws one sober conclusion: teaching-properly done-is one of the world's hardest jobs. "An hour [of it] is certainly the equivalent of a whole morning of office work. . . . Sabbatical leaves are provided so you can have your coronary thrombosis off the campus...
Some other Barzun observations...
Good teachers, concludes Teacher Barzun, make facts live by relating them to their living sources. Thus they make their students the masters, not the slaves, of facts. "If teaching and learning have a practical goal," he declares, "it is this: to keep the men who run our national plant from being...
Professor Barzun was not alone last week in suggesting that the U.S. does not possess the best of all possible educational systems. From three other sources came briskly critical cracks...