Word: lynde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a time, Albert Lynd remembers, when "next to the minister, the high-school principal . . . was the most learned fellow in town." Today, says Lynd, onetime educator and now a Boston advertising man, things have changed. The local high school may well be in the hands of "a brisk Kiwanian" whose teaching experience comes, not from the arts and sciences, but from auto driving or basketball and who earned his doctorate by "researches into the theory and function of a school cafeteria." "Who or what," Lynd asks, "was responsible for the change...
Once a history teacher at Stanford and later at Harvard, Adman Lynd decided that he had solved the mystery after taking a closer look at high-school education from his chair on the school board in Sharon, a small town near Boston. Last week, in the Atlantic Monthly, he described the sort of academic "quackery" he found in control of U.S. public schools...
Patient Lobbyists. The fact is, says Lynd, that "an educational revolution is being put over ... on which [the taxpayer] has been neither consulted nor candidly informed." It is not the fault of parents, school boards, or even the teachers. It is the work of "the super-professionals who determine the kind of education to which your child must submit ... the professors of education in the larger universities and teachers colleges...
...Lynd's super-professionals are powerful men, who "by patient lobbying over many years . . . have so influenced state and local laws, that their training courses in teaching theory and method are virtually essential to the eligibility of any candidate for a job in your schools." But the super-pros do not stop there. To gain promotions, a teacher must keep coming back summer after summer to take mor courses...
Other signers of the statement were: Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Olin Downes, Professor Thomas Emerson, Judge Norval K. Harris, Dr. John A. Kingsbury, Professor Robert Lynd, Carey McWilliams, Professor Philip Morrison, Professor Linius Pauling, Dr. Walter Rautenstrauch, I. F. Stone, and Professor Colston E. Warne...