In the long battle over just what sort of education the public schools should provide, few voices are more reasonable than that of Professor Paul Woodring of Western Washington College of Education (TIME, Oct. 12, 1953). In his latest book (A Fourth of a Nation; McGraw-Hill, $4.50) Woodring takes a hard look at both the educationists and their critics, offers a sensible compromise of his own. The so-called "new education" that developed out of the progressive revolt of the '20s and '30s, says he, "can no more survive unchanged in the second half of...
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