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American minds have been coddled in school and college for at least a generation. There are two kinds of mental coddling. The first belongs to the public schools and is one of the defects of our educational system that we abuse privately and largely keep out of print. It is democratic coddling. I mean, of course, the failure to hold up standards, the willingness to let youth wobble upward, knowing little, and that inaccurately, passing nothing well, graduating with an education that hits and misses like an old typewriter with a torn ribbon. America is full of "sloppy" thinking, of inaccuracy, of "halfbaked" misinformation, of sentimentalism, especially sentimentalism, as a result of coddling by schools that cater to an easy going democracy.
Recommended Citation
Wildman, Dean E.
(1942)
"Broadening Your Education,"
Manuscripts: Vol. 9
:
Iss.
3
, Article 14.
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