Word: lynde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ALBERT LYND New York City...
Retreat Denied. Rightly or wrongly, a group of N.E.A.'s teachers also made it obvio that they had little patience with such critics as Historian Arthur (Educational Wastelands} Bestor and Albert (Quackery in the Public Schools} Lynd...
...Education article entitled "Oceans of Piffle" [Sept. 7] has a quotation [from Alert Lynd's Quackery in the Public Schools] credited to the principal of a Champaign, Ill. junior high school. Since I have been the only principal of a junior high school in Champaign for 19 years, the reference must be to me. The quotation is as follows: "We shall some day accept the thought that it is just as illogical to assume that every boy must be able to read as it is that each one must be able to perform on a violin, that...
...disgusted by your repeated attacks on American education, of which your review of Lynd's book is just another example. All your "oceans of piffle" are based on the same hackneyed theme that if only John Dewey and William Heard Kilpatrick and their ideas had never existed, then education would be far better than it is ... Your war should not be directed against educators who are earnestly attempting to improve the profession but against conditions which foster substandard teaching . . . Substandard teaching has its origin in the community, not with John Dewey...
...ALBERT LYND...