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...most important is an educational problem--What shall the schools teach about the war? This question cannot be solved by the method adopted by certain New York schools; there teachers were forbidden to speak about the war. The Graduate School of Education recently held a meeting of schoolmen to discuss the problem more fully. The results of this conclave have meaning for teacher and student alike...
...businessmen and schoolmen agreed that: 1) U. S. education in recent years has paid too much attention to methods of teaching and not enough to social problems; 2) business has been backward in adjusting itself to new technological conditions. But when they began to discuss what should be done about it, the debate grew bitter. Businessman Houston warned the educators they were flirting with dangerous, collectivistic ideas. More bluntly, Businessman Jones charged them with letting businessmen down, demanded that they do something to remove the impression prevalent among businessmen that educators were "persistently questioning the continued usefulness to society...
Still hopeful of bringing businessmen and schoolmen closer together, Professor Mort appointed a committee to clarify the issues. The committee needed ten topics and 24 subdivisions to catalogue the disagreements. Last week the four businessmen and three educators sat down before an audience of professors and students in Columbia's Milbank Chapel to thresh the matter out. Flanking Dean Russell, they sprawled in their chairs, wriggled and squirmed, stared at the ceiling, never got beyond Subdivision 3 of Topic I. Crux of the argument was not education but the "private enterprise system" v. "planned economy...
Purpose of the present committee, financed by a $50,000 grant from the Hays office and manned by such potent schoolmen as Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman, President Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director Mark May of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, is to break this vicious circle by opening the vaults of Hollywood for school use. Four years ago broad-beamed Educator May and Dean Howard Le Sourd of the Boston University Graduate School set out to experiment in this direction by extracting morally helpful episodes from old feature films. Encouraged...
...educational purposes. This year NBC is devoting a record total of 4,360 hours, 44% of the network's total broadcasting time, to a miscellany of speeches, lectures, concerts, meetings, all labelled "educational programs." Most of these are "sustaining" (non-sponsored) and of widely varying quality. When schoolmen and radiomen met last year at the call of the U. S. Office of Education and the Federal Communications Commission for a conference on educational broadcasting in Washington, upshot was that educators wanted more radio time, networks wanted better programs. This week Counsellor Angell will sit down with Lenox Lohr...