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Dr. Knight writes with a sledge hammer upon an anvil. The obvious fact of change in the world has in recent years been asserted with such pedagogical pontificality as to give it the glamour of fresh discovery. He declares, In times of emergency, economic or military, it is not the function of sound education to change its aims. Its task is to do better what it is expected to do anyway, to serve as a stabilizing influence, to emphasize more strongly permanent values in human life. This statement will, of course, be challenged by modernists and they will demand that Dr. Knight name the permanent values he would emphasize. But there will be many othersto nod approval when they read that educa tional theory in the United States today is hospitable to every wind of pedagogical doctrine, tends to be formless and planless, to trust to faith or hope or charity or luck for 'outcomes' and 'end products', and seems allergic to con stants in human life. Whether one agrees with Dr. Knight or not, one will be enlivened by the vigor and pace of his style and stirred by his bit ing criticism of quantity and numerical criteria of educational progress. Real educational prog ress must be measured in brains rather than bricks.
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