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...coping with this Japanese maneuver, the U.S. Third and Seventh Fleets. Admirals Halsey and Kinkaid commanding, left the five-day-old Leyte beachhead perilously unguarded. Rear Admiral Clifton "Ziggy" Sprague's light task force of baby flattops with a destroyer screen was cruelly trapped by a surprise attack from San Bernardino Strait. On the question of who was to blame hinges the Leyte Gulf controversy that has sputtered ever since. Nearly all of Historian Morison's evidence in this book supports the notion that "Bull"' Halsey was the most blameworthy; he fell for and chased the decoy...
Under these conditions, Halsey continued, higher education in England has assured three major characteristics. First "the balance is much more heavily weighted toward the humanities than in the United States." Secondly, the training is exclusive: the students are a tiny privileged minority group." Thirdly, the universities form a "hierarchy of prestige, reflective of the class system of the country...
Illustrating the final characteristic statistically, Halsey showed that approximately one-tenth of the children of unskilled workers attend universities...
Quoting a recent monograph describing a so-called "meritocracy," Halsey stated that in light of current trends in education, the twenty-first century will find "the intelligence test more important than the birth certificate...
...conclusion, Halsey warned against seeking technological supremacy through education. "A society worshiping productivity," he said, "converts its colleges into technological schools for industrial expansion." Furthermore, he added, "the never-ending search for technology will subvert civilization...