Automated Out?

Is the teacher, asks a distinguished critic, left with anything to do that cannot he done better by technology?

We have been hearing enough about what Mr. Whittaker Chambers in these pages recently called the Closing College Door [“Foot in the Door,” June 20] to convince the most analphabetic of one thing at least: that their children anyhow, come hell or national bankruptcy, are going to get inside a college and spend four years there. So “googols1 of secondary school graduates”-I quote Mr. Chambers’ paraphrase of what comes from my radio every day as I drive home from campus-”will be besieging the gates of the campuses, quite futilely, since college facilities will be totally inadequate to cope with such hordes.”

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Is the teacher, asks a distinguished critic, left with anything to do that cannot he done better by technology?

We have been hearing enough about what Mr. Whittaker Chambers in these pages recently called the Closing College Door [“Foot in the Door,” June 20] to convince the most analphabetic of one thing at least: that their children anyhow, come hell or national bankruptcy, are going to get inside a college and spend four years there. So “googols1 of secondary school graduates”-I quote Mr. Chambers’ paraphrase of what comes from my radio every day as I drive home from campus-”will be besieging the gates of the campuses, quite futilely, since college facilities will be totally inadequate to cope with such hordes.”