Opinions of Citizens, Teachers, and Students, About Certain Philosophicalstatements of Education.

It would appear that through the facilities of mass communication and the printed word more attention is di- rected toward schools now than at any other time in the history of public education. There is widespread concern among our citizens about the content, the materials, the methods, the quality, and the costs of education. public is deluged with charges and countercharges, compari- sons and challenges, and the call to return education to the traditional patterns of the past or those followed by certain selected European nations. The public cannot escape the fact that regardless of how we view education today our public school methods and practices have evolved from what society deemed best in the past. They have been shaped by other cultures (including European), by custom, by regulation, and even by statute. It would appear that change in public education has been by refinement and not by redefinition. Each change has had some effect on the program but each was limited by the existing practices of the school