Title: Paradox and promise; essays on American life and education.
Authors: Broudy, Harry S.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Year: 1961
Subjects: Education Aims and objectives
Contents: Part 1: Paradoxes in School and Society -- Some Educational Paradoxes -- A Surfeit of Freedom -- The Burden of Leisure -- Education for Leisure -- Liberal Arts and Liberal Education -- Part 2: Tales In and Out of School -- Anecdote with Pencils -- Mirabile Dictu -- Voluntary Segregation -- Administrators and Professors -- Laymen and Experts -- Part 3: Paradox and Promise -- Teachers, Strikes and the Art of Payment -- Those Godless Schools -- Teaching Machines -- The Other Excuses of Beauty -- Planning for Excellence.