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Note: Reviews not signed have been written by the editor. If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think, they'll hate you. Evaluation and the Elementary Curriculum by Harold G. Shane and E. T. McSwain. New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc. 1958. 429 pp. $5.25. An Introduction to Research Procedures in Education by J. Francis Rummel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. 413 pp. $5.50. Guidance Practices and Results by John W. M. Rothney. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1958. 542 pp. $6.00. Guidance Services in Schools by Clifford P. Froehlich. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 383 pp. $5.75. How to Teach in the Elementary School by Bernard C. Kelner. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1958. 343 pp. $5.50. Learning and Teaching Arithmetic, by J. Houston Banks. Allyn and Bacon, Boston, 1959. 306 pp. $5.99. Public Relations for Teachers by Doyle M. Bortner. Simmons-Boardman Books, New York. 1959. 200 pp. $4.75. Studying the Individual Pupil by Verna White. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. 228 pp. $4.00. Teaching in the Secondary School by Herbert J. Klausmeier. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958. 499 pp. (487 pp. plus index) 5.00. The American College President by Harold W. Stoke. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959. 180 pp. $3.50. The Elementary Teacher in Action by Raymond H. Harrison and Lawrence E. Gowin. San Francisco: The Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1958. 298 pp. $4.95. The Guidance Function in Education by Percival W. Hutson. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. 670 pp. $6.00. The Second School Curriculum, The Year Book of Education, 1958 George Z. F. Bereday and Joseph A. Lauwerys, Joint Editors, World Book Company, 535 pp. $8.50. The Teaching of Geography by Zoe A. Thralls. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. 1958. 330 pp. $3.75. Working with Student Teachers by Florence Stratemeyer and Margaret Lindsey, New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1958. 502 pp. $4.75. Young Minds Need Something to Grow on by Muriel Ward. 192 p. Row, Peterson & Co., Evanston, 111. $2.40. Common Sense About Gifted Children by Willard Abraham. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958. 268 pp. $3.75. Educational Psychology by Lawrence E. Cole and William F. Bruce. Yonkers, N.Y.: World Book Company, 1958. 701 pp. $6.25. The Child and His Development by J. Murray Lee and Doris May Lee. New York: Appleton-Century-Croft, Inc. 1958. 624 pp. $6.00. Crusader Undaunted: Dr. J. C. Geiger, Private Physician to the Public by Max S. Marshall. New York: The Macmillan Co. 246 pp. $3.50. Landmarks of Tomorrow by Peter F. Drucker. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959. 270 pp. $4.50. In so far as broad policies and ultimate ends affecting the welfare of all are to be determined, the public may well claim its right to settle issues by the vote or voice of majorities. But the selection and prosecution of the detailed ways and means by which the public will is to be executed efficiently must remain largely a matter of specialized and expert service. To the superior knowledge and technique required here, the public may well defer. In the conduct of the schools, it is well for the citizens to determine the ends proper to them, and it is their privilege to fudge of the efficacy of results. Upon questions that concern all the manifold details by which children are to be converted into desirable types of men and women, the expert schoolmaster should be authoritative, at least to a degree commensurate with his superior knowledge of this very complex problem. The administration of the schools, the making of the course of study, the selection of texts, the prescription of methods of teaching, these are matters with which the people, or their representatives upon boards of education, cannot deal save with danger of becoming mere meddlers.

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