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...would hardly be fair to call James Bryant Conant's new book a disappointment. The Education of American Teachers tackles its subject directly but without emotion. It gives no quarter in recommending changes that would irritate vested interests or lessen their power. And when it advocates compromise or seeks a middle way it does so not to avoid controversy but to promote cooperation; for Conant strongly believes that teacher training belongs neither to professional educators nor to academicans but to both, and to the public whom they serve...
...when all this is said The Education of American Teachers remains an enigma. Conant seeks, he says, to replace the present method of training teachers with a program of free enterprise; what he actually proposes is a new orthodoxy. One reason the book has failed to arouse the controversy Conant expected is that both supporters and critics of the status quo are still trying to figure out what it means...
...member of the panel, Israel Scheffler, professor of Education and Philosophy, explained that "many of the things Conant has said are already in operation at the School of Education...
Scheffler applauded Conant's recommendation that courses in "foundations of education" be tied more closely to parent academic disciplines, like history and philosophy, and said that he and other Ed School professors are already making this connection in their courses...
...also welcomed Conant's emphasis on the importance of practice teaching as a test for prospective teachers. But Scheffler cautioned that practice teaching in itself was not sufficient. "Wherever possible, methods courses should be integrated with practice teaching at a critical level," he said