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If John W. Studebaker's Commission on Life Adjustment Education for Youth [TIME, Dec. 15] really takes itself seriously, it should delete the word "Education" from its impressive title. If the group's goal is to see that our nation's youth is equipped merely with such...
Objections. But more education for more people was only part of the problem. What kind of education should they get? "Too often," said the commission, "a man is 'educated' in that he has acquired competence in some particular occupation, yet falls short of that human wholeness and civic...
The U.S. likes to think its educational system as good as any in the world. That doesn't mean that the U.S. is satisfied with it. Recently, educators have been insisting, louder & louder, that it isn't anywhere near good enough. What's wrong with it? Seventeen...
Objectives. The commission came to a familiar conclusion, but had some strong remedies to suggest. "For the great majority of our boys & girls," the commission said, "the kind and amount of education they can hope to attain depends not on their abilities, but on the family or community to which...
First Chance. After 17 months in office, SEC Chairman James J. Caffrey resigned to go into private law practice, thus gave Republicans their first chance to cast a deciding vote on the make-up of SEC. The commission is now split, two Democrats and two Republicans. The G.O.P. Senate must...