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...been Church vs. State in the Constitutional ball game and the stands have been packed. After surveying the field with a stick in its hand for a number of years, the umpire, the Supreme Court, has finally staked out the foul lines. Out in foul territory are the school-children of Champaign, Illinois. They can't get religion during school hours, when clerics invade the public schools to give it. This was the Court's decision in the Vasht--McCollom case in 1948. But safely inside the foul line, since last week, are the kids from New York...
...Hollywood octopus, through the good offices of the National Council of Teachers of English, has enfolded yet another phase of national life in its ubiquitous grasp. The Council has decided that by attending selected current movies, and by subsequently discussing them in the classroom, school-children can be taught to judge and appreciate the cinema. This opinion is new being tested experimentally on 10,000 children; later, if all goes well, 6,000,000 senior and junior high school students of the country will be allowed to exercise their critical faculties in this manner. The teachers hope for the development...
...vexatious problem of the migration of the Indians from Asia to America and the mysterious disappearance of the fabled Atlantis, which Plate mentions as being just beyond the Gates of Hercules in his time. Perhaps in the future when American history is no longer honeycombed with patriotic myths, school-children in addition to learning that the Pilgrims did not and on Plymouth Rock, will also be taught that Columbus sailed west, not because he thought the World was round, but because a Mendelian instinct inherited from Cro-Magnon ancestry, showed him that there was land in that direction...
When historical illusions are malicious, rather than informative, they have no justification. When Moving Pictures drag the faults of other nations before the school-children of America--as they have been doing under the guise of education--then patriotism has degenerated into national bigotry...
Raucus shouts and stamping of feet may again echo through the majestic gloom of Memorial Hall, and basketballs and indoor baseballs may hum through the surprised air of the solemn have, accompanied by the shrieking of school-children if the President and Fellows grant a petition presented last week by the City of Cambridge...