Volume 3, Number 10 · December 31, 1964
The New Education
By Jason Epstein
The New Curricula
edited by Robert W. Heath
Harper & Row, 292 pp., $5.95
One thinks of the schools as one might think of a baffled dinosaur, up to its hips in the mud, a bundle of dying reflexes. Its efforts to extricate its foreparts only drive its hindquarters more deeply into the ooze, its grave, beyond praise or blame. Watching it die, one suspects that it had no chance to survive in the first place: one of nature's endless errors in its search for a more persistent organism.
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