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IH Wind That Blows No Good Time to Take a Look at School System

By NICHOLAS STANFORD Correspondent. News, and Courier Charleston. S. C. New York—The hue and cry over se; l egation in Southern schools now bong raised by selfish special-inte' e- ' groups calling themselves ''pub lic opinion" may turn out to be a blessing in disguise Unless the South wants its schools to become the sort of abattoirs now found in Washington D C it will sooner or later bo forced to a drastic revision of its public-school system, or perhaps the shutting down of pub lic schools altogether. Such a revision would give a priceless opportunity to undo -nine of ilu damage done by 30 year.- of “progressive education." Taken by and large, the U S public school h a s two previous faults: ■ I F does not educate its students 2 It is hostile to the American trade .ai of free represent'iv|j gov ernment, and in its teaching seeks pi indoctrinate students with the philosophy of collectivism That public, school educational Standards are Slipping has been obvious fo'* a Ions time In the Nov. 30 issue of U. S. News and World Report. Prof. Arthur B< ■ tor of the University of Illinois, oik of tlv* most outspoken critics of modern “Educationism." asserted: "We are less educated than the nation was 50 years ago" To New Yorkers, this was hardly news. In a 1951 survey, of 1.135 tenth grade pupils tested in arithme tic, only 24 per cent performed a1 tenth-grade level, three fourths had less than ninth-grade abilitj and nearly half had only sixth-grade achievement.

Here is me very simple explana tion of the "shortage of technicians" about which so much fuss has been made How can a nation be expects to produce engineers and mathema ticians if its schools do not teach arithmetic? Lamenting the decline in mathe matics teaching and in academic standards genera!! y. J. Donald Adams wrote in thi New York Tones' Book Review on fob. 10. 19,52: "I am a product of the New Yqrk City school system in the days v la a it produc'd literate chirms The t})’■<■• ■- year lug!) school course •tlirma h which I passed at Townsend Harr Hall. 199-1 to 1!«I7, gave the equivalent. of what would pass for a college education in many states today Standaids have been debased all along the line, and not only in arithmetic Why Johnny Can't Read” became a besf-selle’' because in plenty of American homes today. Johnny actually can’t read, and p.n cuts want to know why Because the elementary schools graduate semi-literates. In his it 150 annual report to the president of Columbia University Dean William C. Warren of the C lumbia Law School said; "The in - come to us. to read and write is a malady of epidemic p-oportions Thi- devastation of the U. S. school system is the work of "Education ists," not true educators That the schools are not a great deal worse than they are is owing to the real, dedicated teachers who know how to teach and who see "progressive education" from the hollow sham which li is. These latter, however, are voices crying in the wilderness, drowned

out by the propaganda of the "Edu cationists." whose source and foun tainhead is Teachers College. Co lumbia University, and whose pa tron saint is John Dewey. Dewey’s teaching philosophy Uf the opinions of so verbose a wind jammer can be reduced to simple terms was that traditional class room discipline was unnecessary, since children's "group censure" would keep the refractory in line. This is a real ivory-tower conception bv a teacher at graduate-school level. Dewey evidently had never heard of. for example. the Two Brick Trick, which consists ol hurling a brick through a classroom window, quickly seizing the other and ex claiming: "Sir. look what just came

in the window." Dewey’s "pragmatism" would throw overboard mankind's labori ously-acquired body of knowledge, students to learn by a sort of intell ectual osmosis rather than by the dogmatic statement that two plus two is four. Stripped of the fancy talk, j this boils down to learning the hard way Students would discover that fire is hot. not by being told but by having their fingers burned. Finally, Dewey h e I a that no moral values are absolute; hence the churches are reactionary insti tutions which ought to be swept away The Mosaic Law thunders Thou shalt not;" Dewey says. “It all depends on the situation.” Such is the "progressive" philoso phy which has made it necessary :n many eighth-grade classrooms to display the alphabet for students who cannot yet read and write. "By their fruits ye shall know them." de

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dares a book which incidentally is a better model of prose style than anything John Dewey ever wrote. The fruit of “Educationism" is. it seems, illiteracy. Although Dewey claimed not to be a Marxist, his political orientation was far left-of-center Similarly, the collectivist point of view is expound ed today in publications of the pow erful National Education Assn, and other professional publications. For that matter, it is next to im

possible to get through an American college today without being drench ed to the saturation point in col lectivist propaganda. E. Merrill Root has made a report on this topic which, although suppressed by the New' York book-burners, ought to be read by thoughtful Americans. Its title is "Collectivism on the Campus." If one's bookseller is a Communist and claims the work is out of print, it can be had direct from the publishers, Devin-Adair. New’ York.

Cancer Crusade Opens April Program Cancer control month opened Monday, with the annual educa tional and fund-raising crusade of the American Cancer Society. The Virginia division hopes to raise $475,000 to fight the disea.-.• which ranks only behind heart disease and brain hemorrhage as the cause of deaths in Virginia. State chairman of the 1957 cru

sade is Robert Porterfield man aging director of Barter Theatre at Abingdon. The annual April crusade is concerned primarily with an in tensive education program to reach the general public. Powhatan's cancer society chap ter is one of the 12 chapters in Virginia which were cited last year for an income In exces; of the national per capita average of 16.3 cents.

In Prince Fchvard county, r i active campaign for solicitaiioi ; is p!ann°d tliis y ar. according ' > Mrs. June Ellington, who ha^ ac - ed as crusade chairman in pa years. Only the educational plia is being stressed. Those who wish to contribu' • can send their donations to Amer ican Cancer Society. Virginia Di vision. 303 West Franklin Street. Richmond 30.

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