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Matching parents, pupils and pedagogues-for a fee Paul Kingsolver, 15, was falling behind his tenth-grade class at Denver's Mullen High School, an expensive ($1,650 a year) Roman Catholic boys' school. His worried parents took him to Educational Counselor Elizabeth Carroll, a reading and speech...
Similar testimonials fill the files of a growing band of ex-pedagogues, school admissions officers, psychologists and social workers who call themselves educational counselors. For a fee that ranges between $250 and $600 a pupil, finders act as matchmakers, trying to bring together pupils and private schools that seem right...
Pedagogues seeking a "science of education" are sometimes mere comic pinpricks in a teacher's side. For example, Ph.D. theses have been written on such topics as Service in the High School Cafeteria, Student Posture and Public School Plumbing. But many studies are hard on teacher morale. Sociologist James...
It's curious how badly Harvard comes off in The Pedagogues, since like most books about Harvard it appears to set out to be adulatory and in fact to use Harvard as an attractive gimmick to make people read what would be an otherwise dull book. Pier is constantly going...
Whether The Pedagogue holds, then, a valuable lesson that no Summer School student should miss is a moot question. In the concrete sense it's unlikely that anyone has profited much from The Pedagogues since as far as I can tell nobody but me has checked it out of Widener...