Education: The Super-Professionals

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Bargain Basements. To Lynd, it seems obvious that today's schoolchildren lack culture, and that it is due to the lack of culture in their teachers who are trained by the professional schools to treasure "enriched teaching" and "social orientation" more than the subjects they teach. Says Lynd: "The faculties who operate these intellectual bargain basements are the men who are quietly running the educational program in your school. It is more than a possibility that they are also running intelligent and literate young people right out of public education."

What can a parent do about all this? Lynd, himself a graduate of California's public schools, has only one pessimistic suggestion: "Mortgage your house and put your youngster in one of the good private schools, where the best teaching today is being done by high-quality liberal arts graduates for whom the professors of education are only an inspiration for humor in the Masters' Common Room."