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What Is Truth? In the Educational Record, Byron S. Hollinshead, onetime president of Coe College of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, writes what is virtually an educationist manifesto: "One can be lost in admiration for hard work and high standards . . . without believing that rote learning and a heavy emphasis on past civilizations constitute the best preparation for solving modern problems." French children, says he, are interested in Latin because it is similar to their own language, because it is used in Roman Catholic churches, and because Roman ruins arouse their curiosity, but "one cannot expect an American boy to have the same...
Science and math? "Why should everybody pursue algebra, physics and chemistry? Must everyone play the piano, or play football? Granted that a knowledge of arithmetic and general science is essential, how far beyond that are low-ability students supposed to go?" Summing-up Hollinshead credo: "We do not believe that human truth is always and everywhere the same. We believe it varies and changes with time and place . . . We also believe that education has something to do with preparing the student to be able to adjust (horrible word of the critics...
Marching back to work with the rest, Charles Hollinshead, president of the U. A. W. local, declared that the Douglas plan was not far from a yellow-dog contract, under which employes promise not to unionize. Said he: "I have been advised such pledges aren't worth the paper they are printed...
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