Like the teacher he once was, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett was standing before a group of pupils on their first day of school last week. Bennett had come to Amidon Elementary School, in a low-income district of Washington, D. C., to tell the children about the importance of rules and to ask them what they were learning. In case any of them were wondering about the identity of this man surrounded by reporters and television cameras, their principal, Pauline Hamlette, had a simple answer. Mr. Bennett, she told them, is "America's schoolmaster."
Later the same day, the schoolmaster handed...
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