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Education's myriad Wirts were ready for anything up to and including a Communist tocsin when the American Historical Association's Social Studies Commission finally announced its conclusions last week. Since January, when the report was scheduled to appear, campus & classroom have smoked with rumors of radicalism and suppression. Scripps-Howard Columnist Harry Elmer Barnes, onetime sociology professor, got an advance peek at the report, called it "the most revolutionary and significant document in American education since the days of Horace Mann." A first-rate, head-rolling revolution is what the Commission wants, but in Education, not Government...
Especially alert is Editor Patterson to the usefulness of features-love advice, health and beauty hints, dress patterns, quilt patterns, child care, "How He Proposed," "Classroom Boners," "Embarrassing Moments," "Minute Mysteries," etc., etc. A single issue of the News contains about 30 of them. One such is the News' "eminent astrologer," Wynn (Sidney K. Bennett, who rates himself above the late Evangeline Adams), with daily advice such as: ". . . Be sure all your policies are for the good of others in addition to yourself and go ahead definitely toward a worthy goal! Avoid temper." Wynn also offered a free "personal...
Chicago's schoolteachers eyed their charges with a horrid new thought in mind last week. They had to discover if any other children were criminal morons like George Rogalski. In the classroom George Rogalski had been clever, polite, attentive. His teachers had noticed nothing strange about him except that he sometimes teased smaller children. Last week George Rogalski was in jail, his name was in grisly headlines and Superintendent of Schools William Joseph Bogan, after voicing a wish that every one of Chicago's 500,000 schoolchildren could be psychoanalyzed, had ordered analysis for every pupil who seemed...
...Crackpot! Crackpot!" echoed many a tough East Side urchin as Teacher walked into her classroom next day. Before long it was plain that, whether or not 1,500 of them were insane, all 36,000 of the city's teachers were hopping mad. Indignant mass-meetings called for a reprimand, for proof, for Dr. Altman's dismissal, for an investigation of his competence by the New York Academy of Medicine. "He sees insanity in everybody," cried Dr. Abraham Lefkowitz of the Teachers Union...
...life or in any other way attempting to show the world that he exits, but because any experience gleaned by participation in politics while he is still a student will be tremendously valuable later on. The student gains only one half of the picture when he learns in the classroom that many Senators are demagogues and corrupt state bosses. He completes his picture when he goes to Washington and watches those Senators in action. Few of us have been given the opportunity to watch them as they are behind the textbooks: those of us who have been granted this favor...