Letters, Apr. 29, 1957

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TIME'S April 8 review of the fantastic Source Materials of the Educational Program: A Guidebook of Living and Learning Experiences sickens and frightens me. What on earth are parents teaching their children these days to lead professors to believe a need exists for such twaddle as Paul Pierce's manual? It is exactly this sort of inane foolishness which has kept many college students out of the teaching profession.

JEROLD E. HOOVER

Grove City, Ohio

Sir:

It gets my dejected hackles up. Does democracy have to stand for this sort of thing at the hands of its Weber & Fields custodians of education?

W. S. CROLLY

Jacksonville

Sir:

Dr. Joel Hildebrand should be commended for criticizing such "drivel." In deciding to work for an M.A. in school administration in order to qualify for secondary school supervision, I was hardly prepared for the shock. My graduate courses consisted of incomprehensible dribble representing a completely vacuous philosophy. It was fully a year after making the switch to philology for my doctorate that I felt scholastically showered and rinsed. At least we don't spend three weeks discussing "the sacredness of the personality." FRANK KNITTEL

Boulder, Colo.

Sir:

Whatsamatter wid dis Hildebrand fella? he oughta know dis progressive edjucation helps da kids adjust to there envirement.

WILLIAM V. SKYLES

Chicago

Need a Secretary?

Sir:

What a fascinating article [April 8] about secretaries. I certainly would like to meet some of these businessmen you speak of who are willing to pay a decent salary for a good secretary with a good secretarial background.

DAPHNE BARNES

Washington, D.C .

Sir:

The independent business colleges of America, greatest source of new secretaries, are flooded with seven calls for every one secretary trained, on a national average. In some communities the ratio is around 60 to one. Businessmen could help with more work-study programs and scholarships.

S. M. VINOCOUR National Association and Council of Business Schools Washington, D.C.

Sir:

I am under 35 and as ugly as I can be. I am easy to please. Don't want glamour. Don't want prestige. Don't want romance. Just plain money will be fine.

SUSAN GANGWER San Bernardino, Calif.

Sir:

Is the shortage serious enough for businessmen to hire Negroes?

DOROTHY L. TERRY

Flint, Mich.