Volume 1, Number 10 · January 9, 1964
Hard Marker
By Christopher Jencks
American Education—A National Failure
by Admiral H.G. Rickover
Dutton, 502 pp., $3.50
This ought to have been an important book. For one thing, American education is a national failure, and it deserves ruthless criticism. For another, Admiral Rickover has both the wit and the position to offer such criticism and suggest alternatives. And for a third, the comparison of American with European education, which is Rickover's avocation, has in the past been an effective device for raising basic questions about the amorphous American system. Nevertheless, Rickover's new book is a poor one, whether viewed as polemic or analysis.
Review, 1555 words
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