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Today U.S. education is still trudging along on its sentimental journey. It has not only become stereotyped through its neglect of disciplines ("One might say we have improved on Pope: 'The proper study of mankind is mannikins' "), it has also substituted means for ends and perverted the study of man into the study of "the Behavior of Man as a Social Animal." The key word in school and society is now "welfare," and the general belief is that students "are to be taught the functions of modern society and how to function in it." Says Gordon Chalmers...
...says Dr. Bell, the schools are doing an irresponsibly shoddy job. They refuse to drill in word and number ("Some critics think that the current neglect of these disciplines ... is due to the fact that they are disciplines"), ignore the wisdom of the past, and in the name of a false egalitarianism, force all children to proceed at a standardized pace. "The result is a mediocrity which frets and frustrates the more able while it flatters the incompetent. This mediocrity is making Americans increasingly a set of dull dogs, standardized in opinions, fearful of argument, cliched in conversation...
...material if something wasn't done about Deutsch. Could Deutsch explain his vacation activities? Deutsch gave a vague explanation that his visit to Poland and Russia was a spur-of-the-moment whim, mainly because his parents had come from those countries. Unsatisfied, Field fired Deutsch under the "neglect of duty" clause in the union contract. The A.F.L. typographical union appealed the decision, arguing that Deutsch could not be fired for something he had done on his own time...
Last week Theodore Kheel, a longtime arbitrator between management and labor in the printing trade, okayed Deutsch's firing, said it was indeed "neglect of duty," vacation time or not. The issue, Kheel ruled, was whether his conduct had actually hurt the company. Summed up Kheel: "It is quite clear that the company was harmed by Deutsch's course of conduct and ... by his participation in a planned pro-Communist propaganda campaign designed to attract publicity...
...back as 1886. In that year the Faculty decided to introduce "discretionary supervision" of attendance: students could decide for themselves whether attending lectures was actually worth the trouble. Appropriately enough, this period was tagged the "era of opportunity with responsibility"--with accent on the former and shameful neglect of the latter...