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Alfred A. Knopf and Arthur Bestor, Jr., Fascists: With an Aside on the Gifted Child

In a large Michigan high school, not long ago, the principal somewhat reluctantly agreed to hold a faculty meeting to discuss the problems of the Gifted Child. There had been much about this question in the public press, especially in Life; and although the principal had avoided the issue, talking of “education for democracy,” and “no privileges for an intellectual elite,” he now felt compelled to yield a little ground.

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Alfred A. Knopf and Arthur Bestor, Jr., Fascists: With an Aside on the Gifted Child

In a large Michigan high school, not long ago, the principal somewhat reluctantly agreed to hold a faculty meeting to discuss the problems of the Gifted Child. There had been much about this question in the public press, especially in Life; and although the principal had avoided the issue, talking of “education for democracy,” and “no privileges for an intellectual elite,” he now felt compelled to yield a little ground.