Education: Every Classroom a Citadel

U.S. educators heard tough talk from their Government this week. Gathered in Washington for a four-day Institute on Education and the War, 600 leaders of the nation's schools and colleges were directed to train their pupils in military fundamentals from grade school to college. Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt curtly told them: "There is no excuse for any young man or woman to be in college preparing for any profession not directly useful to the war effort."

Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell told them the war might be won or lost in the schools. The...

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