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...Freudian theory, said Dr. Mowrer scornfully, "one would expect neurotic and psychotic individuals to have led exemplary, yea saintly lives. The fact is that they typically exhibit lives that have been disorderly and dishonest in extreme degree.'' And mental hospitals, he charged, are full of patients who have had insight therapy-to no avail...
What the National Education Association calls for is a "significant" inoculation of federal money. The Government is already spending $2 billion yearly on education. A full dose would be strong medicine. If the "educational deficit" is really $9 billion, it is equal to more than 10% of the entire federal budget. No Congress would dream of spending that amount without peering into curriculums, and the prospects are not cheery...
...right. But Cicero's assassin was not John Dewey alone. It was a combination of child-labor laws, compulsory school attendance, the growing need for vocational training, and the Depression, which sent jobless teenagers scurrying to school for shelter. In 1910 thousands of 15-year-olds had full-time jobs; in 1930 about 90% were in school. Result: an entirely different breed of students, with widely varying abilities. No educational system in history has ever been presented with a broader job-or opportunity...
Conant was nearing a Nobel Prize for his research on chlorophyll. He never got it. In 1933 Harvard plucked him out of the lab and elected him president (at 40) to succeed aging Abbott Lawrence Lowell (Cambridge was full of old professors, and its reputation had sagged). By World War II, Conant had hired so many outstanding new professors and administrators that he was able to spend up to 75% of his time away from Harvard, organizing atomic scientists for the supersecret Manhattan Project...
...this reasoning, all men working at full throttle are "gifted." In a status-conscious nation, the idea is sometimes hard to get across. Conant's transmitter: the "comprehensive" high school, a social melting pot throwing rich and poor, dull and bright together. In ideal form, thinks Conant, it should give every kind of student as good an education as he might get in a school designed just...