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...know-why rather than know-how. Harvard's James Bryant Conant has pointed out the need for the "expert on judging experts." Said Princeton's Dean J. Douglas Brown last week: "The students want to know the values we are protecting, not technical devices." Reported A. A. Suppan, philosophy professor at Wisconsin State Teachers College in Milwaukee, after a round table on the subject: "Many of the students say, 'We need some certainty.' They point out that the Dewey criterion for good-'Will it work?'-can be a measuring stick for totalitarians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fusilier | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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