He has a claim upon the sympathy of those who do not have to face the immediate problems. But as long as there are as many debatable questions as Dr. Snedden admits there are, and as long as conditions are as mobile as he indicates, it is surely well that those outside the immediate administrative field insist that particular moves having short-run issues in view be checked up by consideration of issues more fundamental although remoter. For letter to which this was a reply, see this volume, pp. Schools for the trade-oriented mechanical arts do not teach critical thinking. The social good can also be served by adopting the perspectives that the pedagogue is the receiver of the gift.
Students keep teachers keen.
In some ways, we can imagine educational institutions of whatever stripe as parking grounds for a surplus labour pool. The gift of student bodies to the institution may not be the most uplifting of social metaphors. And it does mark the teaching professions as belonging in the same ambit as the care giving professions. You allude to the corrent use of words and you imply that the proper names of the places of activities can change the world. The Taoist would toss away the name like a husk once a full meditation on its meanings were complete.