Democracy

The Soldiels Guide, Deparbnent of the Army Field Manual, FM 21-13, June 1952. p. 69. [239 ] THE CAMEL'S NOSE UNDER THE SCHOOL TENT THE CRISIS in educational accomplishments in the United States has been observed by many persons. President Harold W. Dodds· of Princeton University, for instance, has said: "High school graduates no longer have as firm a grasp on the basic cthree R's'-with all that· they imply -as they had a quarter century ago." Three out of every four freshmen entering the Uni versity of Nebraska in the fall of 1955 were not prepared for regular college English courses. Rudolph Flesch's Why Johnny Cant Read remained on the best-seller list for 37 weeks. History has become a thing of the past in many public schools; geography, an unknown and uninhabited ter ritory. U.S. News and World Report relates: CCMany students Mr. Freeman, formerly Research Director of the Education Com mittee of the U.S. Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, was one of the Committee of Four assigned by the Committee for the White House Conference on Education to prepare an advance factual report on school nnance and federal aid. This article is con densed from an address before The Civic Federation, Chicago, October 31, 1956.