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Show Shall We "Jazz" Education? "We must jazz up learning with a lipstick and rouge." says Professor William J. Newlin of Amherst College. The go-get-em professor explains that in an age of jazz and thrills, the world educational alone has remained "de-thrilled "de-thrilled and de-natured." Once in a while such statements make one wonder if the tendency to acclaim the new, the modern, the young, to grant without question that all its demands be met, that it be gorged gorg-ed to satisfaction and no questions asked, is altogether rood. Once in a while one wonders if youth should not rather be taught some of the beauties of the old, respect for the dignity and worth of traditions and history welded together by the final and best thought of many men big and strong. In other words, should youth's greedy call of "Gimme! Gimmie !" yelled at the citadel of education, be met on its own terms, or should youth be led to see perhaps that what it scorns has some worth? Should education be given "the lipstick and rouge" so much as yowling youth itself should be given a good trouncing trounc-ing until its unwholesomely puffed head shrinks into somewhere. some-where. We have as little patience with those who say "give youth all it wants and everything" as those who drably say, "give it nothing. Let it take what we offer." |