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Learning to Detest. "This ignorance is scarcely surprising, for little knowledge of mathematics is expected, even officially, of prospective schoolteachers. In the majority of cases, an individual with ambition to teach in an elementary school can matriculate at a teachers college without showing any high-school mathematics on his record. He can graduate without studying any college mathematics. And in this condition, he can meet the requirements of most states for a certificate to teach arithmetic . . . Nearly one-third of the states will license [high school math] teachers even though they have had no college mathematics...
...whole situation, says E.T.S., finally boils down to this: "Future teachers pass through the elementary schools learning to detest mathematics. They drop it in high school as early as possible. They avoid it in teachers colleges because it is not required. They return to the elementary school to teach a new generation to detest...
...Frank John Lausche of Ohio ought to be the worst kind of political liability. At 60 he is an unfraternal Democrat who often talks and acts like a Republican. He is the implacable enemy of lobbies and pressure groups of all kinds. Big-shot Republicans resent him; organization Democrats detest him; labor leaders denounce him as the foe of the workingman. His immigrant parentage arouses the suspicion of Mayflowering Americans. Protestants are skeptical of his Roman Catholic raising; devout Catholics deplore the fact that he is, in effect, excommunicated for marrying outside the Catholic Church. Even the schoolteachers of Ohio...
...year, the first Budget Director was so thoroughly in control that he had inspired cuts of $1.7 billion in Government expenses from the preceding fiscal year. Then, with the pattern set (he hoped), he quit as he had said he would, "for I detest this life ... As one who must be used to upset the status quo, I am not the logical man to continue the operation of the Budget Bureau...
...Replace Grandval. whom the French colons detest, with General Pierre Boyer de Latour du Moulin, the successful Resident General of Tunisia...