| Show !' I'hisV THE REAL SCHOOL CRISIS: all the financial security they can get me to admit that I am neither an requires honesty economist nor an architect It would be ducking the issue to infer that bigger pay checks for the teachers would guarantee better brains for the pupils Or that building more schools means building better Americans As a pedagogue I have no edifice complex To blame mortar and bricks for a breakdown of education would be the easy way out Unfortunately my own prescription for repairing the flaws is quite a bit harder to swallow It relies for its effectiveness not on bricklayers and blueprints for new buildings but on parents and teachers It even runs counter to the present law of the land as understood and enforced by truant officers In short I believe that the most effective reform our youth — to But THE PROBLEM! Bright normally willing children may ba held back In their school development ‘ - ’ " |
