From the Academy

Teaching Teachers Something

For nearly a generation, most teachers in this land have been compelled to suffer under the doctrinaires of the teachers’ colleges and departments of education. The worst aspect of this domination has been the insistence of the educationists that all prospective teachers must enroll in interminable courses in child psychology, tests and methods, and the rest. The amount of time left for instructing future teachers in genuine intellectual disciplines has been small —though even that remaining time has been coveted by some of the professors of pedagogy.