In the exhibition hall at the National Education Association's convention in Boston last week, a 16-mm. projector ground out over & over an educational film on Patrick Henry's 'historic speech "Give me liberty or give me death." School teachers swarmed around it, cheered each showing. The N.E.A. convention the largest and most representative gathering of educators of the U.S. school year was in a grim mood, a mood in which even the feared word propaganda failed to scare many of the 10,000 delegates.
Propaganda was the convention's prime topic. Many delegates...
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