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...work have problems and responsibilities, as well as pleasures and rewards." If the student is expected to know much of anything about history aside from some fatuously chauvinistic scraps out of the American past, the manual does not say. Under the high-school section "Using Tools of Communication Effectively," Hildebrand counted 44 items on "listening," e.g., "listening to a telephone conversation," "listening to the words of a song." He also noted under "Using Mathematics" such items as "counting change as cashiers do" and "opening a checking account and making out deposit slips." Bottom ways of "using mathematics": "making geometric constructions...
This is the considered opinion of white-thatched Joel Hildebrand, 75, of the University of California. Hildebrand, a highly respected chemist, is one of the tartest critics of the life-adjustment and how-to-get-along kind of education being dished up by some of the nation's schools and teachers' colleges. Last week his horrible example was a 395-page teachers' manual published by the Chicago public-school system and put together by Paul R. Pierce, now a professor of education at Purdue. The manual bears the formidable title Source Materials of the Educational Program...
Even though Chicago's more discriminating teachers may indulge in this nonsense only sparingly, it will still take time enough away from subjects like history, chemistry and physics. Besides, says Joel Hildebrand, "why write it all down? Why make teachers read this stuff? The flabby condition of education demonstrated in this book is going to put us behind the Russians in more areas than the military...
...qualified to analyze objectively the "relative importance or practicability" of the 14 educational goals listed in the White House Conference report [Dec. 19]? Naturally, Chemist Joel Henry Hildebrand insists that mathematics and science are the most important. Yet nothing is either practicable or important if never used. Those who bemoan declining registrations in high-school math and science courses should first survey the extent to which these subjects are subsequently used...
Your Dec. 19 education section quotes Joel Henry Hildebrand, who sounds as though he knows what he is talking about, and a school superintendent, John Milne, who appears to know how to act upon his beliefs and produce results. Why doesn't somebody get behind these and other such men and put some substance behind the White House Conference on Education...