Show NON COMPOS IPOS MENTIS 1 O NE day clay there conies comes a report from New NewYork NewYork York that 1500 school teachers in the public public pub pub- lic lie schools there are arc mentally unfit for their posts p Their derangements run all the tho wa way from plain simple mindedness to senile dementia demen demen- tia ha and manic depressive psychosis Some of them are inmates inmates- of asylums and commute daily to and from irom their desks s in the schools The rhe next day daj report from front Berkeley has nas it that some faculty members of the University of California arc are ardently devoted to the practice practice tice tiec of nudism that some of the professors get very drunk and that in iii order to obtain scholarly scholarly schol schol- arly any degrees coeds are often forced into highly unpleasant situations by bJ preceptors with aggravated aggravated ag ag- notions of what academic freedom means Between the New York Jork psychopaths and the thc professorial ial skipping about among the sequoias of the Golden West Vest there ma may be far less difference than would at first be he suppo supposed ed Both of these amazing stories suggest that book knowledge should not be be be- regarded as as' asa a sole qualification for teaching Searching Searching- ph physical an and mental examinations should eliminate from classrooms all but the fit Certai Certainly Jy there herc is no place in the schools of the cou country those who do 10 not recognize and live within the accepted social conventions conventions conven conven- nor for those whose mentality is im im- im- im paired |