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...success of the American public-school system lies in its approval by the near-unanimous consent of the people. The introduction of religious teaching into it would destroy this approval and would thus jeopardize the continued success of the system...
...onetime president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and a top Protestant layman, Ohio's Charles P. Taft has long believed that Protestants should find a way to fill a major gap in the public-school curriculum. Last week Lawyer Taft (brother of the Senate's Mr. Republican) made his point before a meeting of the Warren (Ohio) Citizens Commission for the Public Schools...
...British Columbia's suburban community of Maillardville, 16 miles southeast of Vancouver, two Roman Catholic parochial schools shut their doors last week and turned their 800 pupils over to the local public-school system. The Catholics had been turned down in their request for free transportation, and the lockout was their reply...
...Public-school authorities announced that 15 new teachers had been added and that the organization of morning and afternoon shifts to accommodate the extra pupils was "proceeding smoothly." But at week's end the municipal council unanimously voted to ask the school board to invite British Columbia's Education Minister W. T. Straith to come down and talk it all over at a round-table conference "as soon as possible...
...professional educators tolerate this sort of thing? To some extent, says Sperry, they have no alternative. Since public-school teachers are wretchedly underpaid, the profession seldom gets the cream of high-school graduates ("The English don't have a democracy," cried one student teacher in the course of a history class. "They have a king.") The colleges themselves seldom have the money that other institutions have, and their professors-"the men who teach the teachers-rank close to the bottom of the prestige ladder in the academic world." The great universities and the liberal arts colleges consistently ignore their...