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Such a steamy geyser blew off last week when Mrs. Elizabeth E. Malament, a Brooklyn social-studies teacher, inveighed against a recent U.S. history exam set by the State Board of Regents. Wrote Mrs. Malament: "Does [the exam] measure the significant and enduring values that we strive to develop in our pupils? Will it help teachers by directing their emphasis into the most meaningful channels?" Mrs. Malament thought...
...Imagine," said Mrs. Malament, "the chagrin of the teacher who has weighted his work heavily in the direction of the growth of democracy, who has said to his pupils, 'This above all you must know, understand, feel...
What was Mrs. Malament really talking about-education for human beings, or propaganda for docile citizens...
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