Conservatives, Too, Have Tenure

Kirk

Doctrinaire and intolerant Deweyism still is dominant in many teachers’ colleges and state educational bureaucracies. At Wisconsin State College, Oshkosh, Dr. Gordon V. Drake recently was sentenced and (metaphorically) executed by the Progressivist tribunal. His case — which has been a cause célèbre in Wisconsin for the past four months — is sufficiently illustrative of the arbitrary domination which continues to function in many teacher-training establishments, despite a decade of criticism of Deweyite fallacies. But Dr. Drake, unlike most victims of this hierarchy, has protested.