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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Jay Chapman, writing in the December "Atlantic" on "Our Private Schools," finds that college entrance examinations have done more than anything else to destroy education in the secondary schools. Hardly less important as a contributory cause, he thinks, is the shift in emphasis from teacher to text-book...
...well-to-do people are nonliterate, Mr. Chapman adds that the private school is looked upon as a sluiceway to college. All through their life in the private school the boys are so oppressed by the spectre of the college entrance examination, marching upon them with a chastising text-book, that they cannot "find the leisure to be truly interested, truly absorbed in any thought." The remedy--Mr. Chapman uses the teaching of English as an example--is the reading of good books, learning poetry by heart, and practising composition under the eye of a talented man of letters...
...over-emphasize text-books instead of teachers is a mistake. But the thought of college entrance examinations as an oppressive spectre, keeping the secondary school boy away from all knowledge, is absurb. If anything, the private school man inclines too much to underrate them. It is true that because of the general "speeding-up" of colleges, private schools have had to shift from the task of educating to that of preparing. Whether the private schools can educate and at the same time prepare for college, and whether colleges really educate, are questions on which one man's opinions are just...
...Meanwhile the text has been made available for the press here. Whether the matter comes before the League depends on whether any Government presents...
...manucript from which the text of the translation is derived was written in the late fourteenth century and is now preserved at Chantilly. It was intended to be acted by the white sisters of Huy with the assistance of the pious women of the neighborhood, a fact which accounts for the presence of shepherdesses in the plot, along with the conventional shepherds...