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Almost every boy in the U.S. has dinned into him the idea that he must excel his father?a guaranteed producer of anxiety, by Freudian theory, if the boy has grown
Away from home, he began to enjoy minor heresies. He got good marks at the Academy from force of habit, but he was too busy trying (unsuccessfully) to make the varsity baseball team, too busy having a good time, to excel. He sneaked forbidden smokes, wore uniforms with well-concealed nonregulation pockets, eventually earned just about as many demerits as anyone in his class. Scholastically, he ranked in the middle brackets-breeding ground of most U.S. generals and admirals...
...coal. But the parents had something more valuable than material advantages to give. "We grew up," recalls Dean's elder brother Roger, a University of Tennessee physics professor, "in a strict atmosphere of moral integrity, imposed by both parents and schoolteachers. We were under constant admonition to excel, to go out in the world and do something. Be different, do your best, they told us. We were always striving for excellence...
Public School Grads Excel...
...Without pussyfooting, the group soon made clear its stance. It attacked the theory of education for "life adjustment" as non-education: "The school has neither the chief responsibility nor the means for dealing with all aspects of personal development . . . The school should foster in each student the desire to excel, or at least to do his best. The school is under special obligation to develop the talent and skills needed by the Nation...