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...education with the great streams of human knowledge, thought and aspiration. . . . The weaker normal schools and teachers' colleges should be closed, while the remainder should become centers, not of pedagogy as traditionally conceived, but of knowledge and thought." Besides this body blow, the Commission took a savage poke at modern pedagogy's right arm, the intelligence test. What test scores reveal, the Commission did not know. For predicting vocational success. formulating social and educational policies, such tests are "patently limited," "utterly inadequate," "meaningless." Best-known of the authors of these heresies is American Historical Association's retiring...
...laughter from the insanely practical Frenchmen, one may strike on the solution of this little mystery without resorting to an encyclopedia by wondering what would shock a staid Anglo Saxon. Hillel Bernstein writes simple prose, gently mocking everything in France by la France, and not forgetting to take a poke at some of our noble customs and institutions such as the "Busters" which vaguely resembles the American Legion, or the Gold Star Legation. Bernstein's satire will surely amuse you, provided that you are not a "Buster...
Strengthened by President Roosevelt's act, Russia now feels strong enough, Comrade Stalin indicated, to withstand an assault from either the East (Japan) or the West (Germany). "We warn all such nations," said the Dictator, "not to poke their swinish snouts into the Soviet potato patch...
Sure that it knew best how to manage German business, one of the first steps of the Hitler Government was to poke into hundreds of the Fatherland's leading industries a Nazi busybody called a "commissar...
That surplus, however, has been strangely volatile. Mr. Schwab himself cannot quite believe that it is gone. For a while the realization stripped him of his old arrogance, but instead of giving him a subdued wisdom, adversity merely tempted his friends to poke a curious finger through him, and his enemies to come gingerly within his range. But Bethlehem's late lawyer once remarked, when he was drawing up its famous percentage contract with the government, that "The higher optimism is to hope for a little pessimism in Charley Schwab." So Mr. Schwab is once more sanguine. Perhaps...