Education: Small Seed

Washington's last student conference —the leftist American Youth Congress, sponsored, like many another, by Eleanor Roosevelt — met two years ago on the White House lawn to boo a speech by the President. It applauded John L. Lewis and the Russian invasion of Finland.

Relatively restrained by comparison, the International Student Assembly convened last week in Washington with 365 delegates from 56 countries. Like most student conferences, this one was noteworthy for: 1) the vagueness of its talk; 2) the large number of students in their 30s. Unlike the others, it included a group...

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