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Indeed, "up-and-coming public school educationists are not talking about substituting one scholarly discipline for another . . . They are talking-as clearly as their antipathy for grammar and syntax permits them to talk-about the elimination of all the scholarly disciplines...
Born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, in 1892, Demos soon moved to Constantinople where he spent his early years. He was just out of grammar school when he read his first book on philosophy, he recalls in his warm accent. "It was a funny thing. Immediately I knew I liked it better than anything else. Since one of my teachers said that it I like it best, I should make my living that way, that is all there...
...exacting trade (Jansen's Park Avenue apartment boasts a collection of intricately inlaid tables fitted by his father's hands), endured hard times and planned better lives for his children. Jansen, a big, strong boy. knew what he wanted to do soon after he entered Grammar School No. 60 in The Bronx. He liked school. He decided to stay there...
...York's first daytime high schools had been completed for only three years when he finished grammar school in 1900. He went to Morris High School. He went on to Columbia University's Teachers College, the academic nest in which John Dewey hatched his theories of progressive education (theories which the New York school system began adopting after World War I and from which Middle-of-the-Roader Jansen still cautiously borrows today). He went back to the public schools as a teacher, married a fellow teacher - a vivacious physical education instructor named Frances Allan...
Careful palates may protest sometimes at Will's beer, for all the pippins bobbing in it, but Will himself, who in grammar school literally had to be tied to his bench, can understandably be pleased with his intellectual achievement...