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Tough All Over. In his careful way, Ben Fine had documented what most educators and many citizens already knew: that U.S. schools are in a bad way. He had piled up some awesome facts & figures on the teacher exodus (350,000 since 1941), the teacher shortage (70,000), the number of substandard teachers (125,000), their generally low quality (one-third didn't go beyond high school), and the low teacher pay (U.S. average: $37 a week). But like most statistics, these were bloodless. The dismaying story of U.S. education came alive only when he told what...
...central Georgia, a mother insisted on taking her child out of school. Fine wondered why. "I know the new teacher," she replied. "She was reared in this county. And I know that she has not gone beyond the fourth grade. What is the sense of letting [her teach] my seventh-grade child...
...Class Citizens. All over the U.S., schoolteachers told Ben Fine that they were fed up with the way their communities made them live. They longed for the freedom to marry, smoke, drink, dress and pray when and as they pleased. Many felt like second-class citizens. Said one Nebraska teacher: "The only time I am asked to visit the home of any parent is when little Johnny is in trouble...
...another Midwestern teacher who made Fine realize what his statistics about overcrowded and rundown schools meant. Said she: "When it's cloudy we strain our eyes or wait until a little more sunlight comes in. If we had electric lights we could do much more work here...
With his retirement, Harvard will lose not only a great teacher but one of the top U.S. authorities on jurisprudence. His admirers say that he has revolutionized the teaching of law; his detractors agree that he has but wish he hadn't. He was the first to systematize what was only a vague stirring in men like Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and German jurists: the theory that law must look to the world around it as well as to its codes. He did much to change the accent from fixed rules (analytical jurisprudence) to social needs (sociological jurisprudence...