March 29, 2024
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE

History of education

Two groups pant afer educational reform. There is the King Canute groups, to which, I gather, Gov. Angus King belongs, and there is the Peaceable Kingdom group. The Canute group seeks to end turmoil with the whip; the Peaceable Kingdom group offers love. Each is a religion masquerading as expertise. Neither is in possession of verifiable data which support its position. And whenever either offers argument, it is immediately denounced as heretical and pagan by the other.

The history of education is a history of promises made only to be shattered on the shoals of reality. Before any parent “buys into” either philosophy he owes it to his kids to research the sources of the truths defended by spokesman for that philosophy. He may find they’re made out of whole cloth. Victor Lister St. Albans


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