Education: The Sparrow v. the Hawk

The veteran-on-campus was beginning to rustle the ivy. Last week the Daily Bruin, student newspaper of the University of California at Los Angeles, devoted a four-column spread to the educational opinions of 22-year-old Jay Douglas Haley, late of the A.A.F. Excerpts:

"The educational system of America is failing the youth of America! . . . It is fashioning sparrows and pushing them out to compete with hawks. . . . Why on earth should we be taught . . . this foolishness about honesty, truth and fair play? . . .

"If a student is majoring in law, he should be taught...

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