Three-Point Landing in Spanish

Abstract

don't Educationists, and all the rest of us, return to the general basic studies, and admit that both parents and children can and will solve their specific problems without looking up what to do in a textbook written by a man who has collected a bibliography and a lot of 3 x 5 cards? The current generation of Americans has more words to master and more power and speed to control (or lose) than any generation in all history. What's going to happen if we offer them Meat Cutting, Cosmetological Facial Makeup and Principles of Advanced Ice Skating as equals in credit to Don Quijote and Faust? Aren't the Futilitarians wrong in thinking that the possibilities of language and literature are exhausted? Last June the Faculty of an old and well-established liberal arts college of the South in plenary session to vote the degrees to be granted the following day. All students had met the requirements except one girl. Inquiry revealed that she had not properly stitched a dress. In the nick of time she changed the stitches and got her degree. It is conceivable that a similar emergency might have arisen because of a burnt pie-crust. When well-meaning but misguided persons put the curricular abstrosities we have described above the gold taken from books, it is time to pray. An educational system which places manual arts and advanced swimming' and dollar-catching schemes2 on the same level with Epictetus's genial stoicism or Shakespeare's thundering pessimism is standing on its head. When we were children, we stood on our heads frequently, but not ever for long, because we were afraid our livers would turn over. The real question is, will our educational system's liver turn over before it gets back on its feet?