Corporal punishment in schools produces emotionality, anxiety and fear. The Higher Education Crunch Private colleges and universities have been struggling with a budget crisis for at least a decade. The response has been faculty cuts and program cancellations. Some higher education downsizing may be healthy, but too much may bring about the image of mediocrity our elementary and secondary schools now enjoy. Today somehow schools must come to terms with increasing violence, school financing, most mothers working, and that children know more about sex.
Social change is too continuous and rapid.
An indefinite period of continuing tumultuous adjustment seems to be the most likely prospect. Unsettled value conflicts of the society become the problems of the school. Not only differences over means , but also differences over ends are involved. People who disagree about the kind of society they want must also disagree upon how children should be trained to live in society. Thus educational controversies seem inevitable.