1975163

Review: A Challenge to Eductors
Source: The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Apr., 1934), p. 232
Published by: Ohio State University Press
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232 JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION
ment was destined to overtake them. In bear the imprint of a great university
England they watched the disintegration press and evidences of the scrutiny of a
of the British Labor party, and in graduate faculty, might be dismissed by
America they saw the New Freedom the timid academician as just another
wrecked in a tidal wave of frenzied radical outburst. As a matter of fact, it
materialism. Today another band of is an intensely earnest evaluation of
educational scholars finds itself in the American life and learning, such as our
midst of a stirring movement. The old times demand. And fortunate it is for
leaders are still in the vanguard, but a educational theory in America that there
host of younger men, among them Mr. are several strongholds of adventurous
Norman Woelfel, have swelled the ranks. thinking. What the book lacks in re-
The author of Molders of the American straint it gains in pungency. The latter
Mind challenges the great body of educa- is such a welcome ingredient in educa-
tional workers to forsake the traditional tional writing that the reader is inclined
policy of academic aloofness and join in to be lenient toward the author's critical
the task of social reconstruction. Seven- excesses. Dogma, which is the greatest
teen leading representatives of the pro- constructive strength of the book, is at
fession are put on the witness stand and once its greatest critical weakness.
cross-examined. Of this number one HENRY HARAP
group, the modern experimental natu- Western Reserve University
ralists are acquitted, although no single
individual escapes without censure. The THE SECOND YEARBOOK OF SCHOOL LAW,
rest are found guilty on three principal edited by M. M. Chambers. Columbus,
counts: traditional Christianity, capital- Ohio: M. M. Chambers, Ohio State
ism, and scientific research.
University, 1934. 96 pp.
Traditional religion plays a decadent
role in American life. It breeds capi- In a chapter on institutions of higher
talism in economics and classicism in education and private schools, Alexander
education. The author advocates modern Brody, of St. John's University, sets
experimental naturalism as a new outlet down some relevant decisions of courts
for spiritual expression. This philosophy concerning these institutions in many
will give rise to a new religion in which states. This is one of thirteen chapters
man is the creator of an ever growing written in a narrative topical style about
social experience, and in which society decisions involving school law in the
is a co-operative reconstruction of culture. higher courts of the United States.
Capitalism is in an advanced stage of Each chapter deals with a current phase
decay. The youth of the nation should of school law and is written by a specialist
be rallied to the support of a classless and in the particular field. The purpose of
collective society in which all men create the book is to keep those who are respon-
and enjoy the fruits of human toil to the sible for the development of this phase of
full measure of their ability. The scien- social life aware of the deliberate and
tific movement in education has retarded formal judgments made in the interpreta-
fundamental reform. It has served as tion of school law throughout the country.
a smoke screen of objectivity to hide In a short foreword, Mr. Zook, United
educational conservatism. Oblivious to States Commissioner of Education, com-
the great causes which surround them, mends the book for the signal service it
the researchers have lavished their talents performs in giving information and mak-
on trivialities. They have erected a ing it possible "to avoid numerous mis-
formidable barrier to an educational pro- takes in legislation" and enabling "school
gram of integrated personality growth. administrators and legislative committees
Mr. Woelfel has written an iconoclastic to formulate legislation in such a manner
and provocative book which, if it did not as to secure the desired end."
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