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When the big White House Conference on Education finally broke up, most of the delegates headed for home convinced of a job well done. Not so, prestigious Joel Henry Hildebrand, professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of California, president of the American Chemical Society, blunt critic of what he calls the declining intellectual standards...
schools. Last week Dr. Hildebrand issued his own minority report on why he thinks the conference was a flop...
...every stage," said Chemist Hildebrand, "there were watchful men who honestly believe more in 'social competency' than in grammar and arithmetic, and, because good-natured committeemen try to fix up their reports so as to make every member happy, anything seriously critical of certain doctrines and practices largely responsible for the present deplorable and dangerous situation [in the schools] could not get through." In discussing Topic i-What should our schools accomplish?-six members out of eleven at Hildebrand's Table No. 40 flatly declared that the schools are trying to do too much. But when...
Table 40 had protested that "many persons, otherwise well qualified [to teach], are repelled by courses in education that they regard as repetitive, doctrinaire, or inferior in intellectual quality." But this idea, says Hildebrand, never showed up in the final report-and, he thinks, with good reason. "The requirement, first, of 18 or more units of education for certification as a 'qualified' teacher, and then of summer-session credits therein in order for the harassed teacher to get raises in salary, provides positions for a vast number of professors of education, jobs that they, of course...
William Cowperthwaite was a competent King Hildebrand. The stiffness and inflexibility of his acting, which might have detracted from another role, provided a strong contrast to Wayne Paton's brilliant performance as King Gama. Paton's portrayal of the irascible hunchback was worthy of Martyn Green, both for its cheerful leering and its precise enunciation. Nell Davenport was equally well cast as Lady Blanche; her voice, however, was not quite equal to the range of the score. Merle Moses, as Lady Psyche, effectively contrasts here susceptibility to Lady Blanche's austerity. Melissa, played by Sally Cameron, displayed a spirit...