“In a 1930 symposium on ‘The New Education, Ten Years After,’ in The New Republic, Boyd H. Bode of Ohio State University remarked querulously that ‘To the casual observer, American education is a confusing and not altogether edifying spectacle. It is productive of endless fads and panaceas; it is pretentiously scientific and at the same time pathetically conventional; it is scornful of the past, yet painfully inarticulate when it speaks of the future.'”
Ravitch, Diane. Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform. New York: Touchstone, 2000.
Mark's Text Terminal 