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“Yes,” says Thomas Molnar writing in the current issue of The University Bookman. “It is an open secret that our grade-and high school teachers are obliged to live an educational double existence: in one they absorb the educationalist non-sense and serve it up when examined by the officialdom; in the other, that is, when they face the pupils, they resort to common sense and accumulated experience, both of which flagrantly contradict the theories they must assimilate in order to qualify as teachers.”

The first of two parts of “Un-Education” appears in the current Fall issue. The Fall issue also contains “Science in the Schools” by John Wisner, of Nashville, and “The Achievements of Irving Babbitt” by Milton Hindus, poet and critic, and professor of English at Brandeis University.

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“Yes,” says Thomas Molnar writing in the current issue of The University Bookman. “It is an open secret that our grade-and high school teachers are obliged to live an educational double existence: in one they absorb the educationalist non-sense and serve it up when examined by the officialdom; in the other, that is, when they face the pupils, they resort to common sense and accumulated experience, both of which flagrantly contradict the theories they must assimilate in order to qualify as teachers.”

The first of two parts of “Un-Education” appears in the current Fall issue. The Fall issue also contains “Science in the Schools” by John Wisner, of Nashville, and “The Achievements of Irving Babbitt” by Milton Hindus, poet and critic, and professor of English at Brandeis University.