Education: The Ghost at the Graduation

At each of about 1,000 U.S. high school graduations this year, it is quite likely that an earnest salutatorian will implore his classmates to learn "intellectual honesty " defined as "the degree to which we say what we think." At the same time, about an equal number of valedictorians will praise "romance" because ' it still the muscles, adds endurance, freshens the eyes and tinges life with a bright hue of great expectation." In a vast chorus ot identical phraseology, class presidents wi cite Columbus and Alexander Graham Bell to evoke the. "thrilling...

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