Letters, Feb. 15, 1960

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    I don't have my Latin dictionary handy, but I strongly suspect that if Theodore Francis Green has for his motto Sinesco discens [Jan. 25], then sinescent (but not sinile) Sinior Sinator Green would be well advised to check his spelling.

    W. W. DOLAN Linfield College McMinnville, Ore.

    Or TIME its Latin dictionary.—ED.

    Undue Pressure

    Sir:

    To let Adam Clayton Powell and other Negroes pressure Tammany Hall into replacing Hulan Jack with another Negro just for the sake of having the Manhattan borough president a Negro [Jan. 25] is a foolish thing. Whoever is qualified should get the job.

    To demand such a thing would have it appear that Tammany Hall has inflicted some injustice upon the Negro race and therefore must, to appease our ire, be cautious and solicitous. Tammany Hall has no such responsibility.

    We Negroes have got to accept such a situation as this for what it is—a situation in which a man compromised his political responsibility and integrity for the sake of financial benefit, and with maturity and sensibility be big enough to suppress hypersensitive feelings of race pride.

    PEGGY ANN TAYLOR Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio

    Sociologists or Scientists?

    Sir:

    Yea for Myron Lieberman [Feb. i]. It really is a sorry state of affairs when doctors, carpenters, farmers, businessmen and housewives decide school policy. I'm fast realizing why there are so many private schools around the country.

    BRIAN A. HANSON

    St. Albans, Me.

    Sir:

    Myron Lieberman's suggested cure for the ailing state of U.S. education is far worse than the disease. To give the present crop of teachers, trained in the mumbo-jumbo quackery of the schools of education, the sole responsibility for determining the curriculum is to invite a disaster of nightmare proportions.

    MORRIS RAPOPORT College Station, Texas

    Sir:

    Lieberman's equation of educators with physicians is not valid. Any medical association is composed of members who can prove their theories by objective or scientific tests. No layman can argue against a germ culture or test tube. What objective demonstrations will prove an educator's omniscience? The only scientific method applicable to education is trial and error. Educators are sociologists, not scientists. Their power derives from the people, not from absolute truth.

    CHARLES HOLLAND

    Wallkill, N.Y.

    Initiative

    SIR:

    SERIOUSLY DISTURBED TIME AFRICA STORY [FEB. i] ALLEGING CERTAIN ATTITUDES ON

    PART OF KENYATTA AND NKRUMAH TOWARD MYSELF, ALSO POSITION OF PETER KOINANGE AT KENYA CONFERENCE. KOINANGE's PRESENCE IN LONDON RESULT OF INITIATIVE TAKEN BY ME AND OTHERS. NEITHER NKRUMAH NOR KENYATTA HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT. KENYATTA AND GROUP AT LODWAR CAMP SENT ME MESSAGE WHICH I RELATED TO AFRICAN LEADERS' CONFERENCE IN KENYA ON IOTH JANUARY EXPRESSING FULL CONFIDENCE IN MY COLLEAGUES AND MYSELF AND APPROVING OUR GROUP PROPOSALS FOR LONDON CONFERENCE. NKRUMAH AND I AGREE ON MANY POINTS, DIFFER ON SOME. NKRUMAH TOO HAS SENT MESSAGE OF BEST WISHES.

    TOM MBOYA LONDON

    Apathy Through Ignorance

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