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The Educationists9 Utopia

Mr. Benjamin C. Willis, superintendent of the schools of Chicago, recently gave voice to dreams of glory. There is nothing new about his design for a “dream school,” which he depicted some weeks ago to the convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. On the contrary, it is significant as a symptom of the ossified “progressive” notions that still dominate the hierarchy of publicschool administrators. His words and his concepts are straight out of the twenties, unmodified by experience and later theory. More than Louis XVIII, Mr. Willis seems to have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing.

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The Educationists9 Utopia

Mr. Benjamin C. Willis, superintendent of the schools of Chicago, recently gave voice to dreams of glory. There is nothing new about his design for a “dream school,” which he depicted some weeks ago to the convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. On the contrary, it is significant as a symptom of the ossified “progressive” notions that still dominate the hierarchy of publicschool administrators. His words and his concepts are straight out of the twenties, unmodified by experience and later theory. More than Louis XVIII, Mr. Willis seems to have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing.