Albert Lynd

That John Dewey was one of the foremost philosophers of our time is a fact, but the influence of his thinking and that of his disciples upon the public schools has been a subject of sharper and sharper questioning in recent years. One of the most articulate critics of Deweyism is ALBERT LYND,who is serving his second term on the School Board of Sharon, Massachusetts. Mr. Lynd is a Boston businessman who had seven years of teaching experience at Harvard College and Stanford University. His book on modern education, Quackery in the Public Schools, will be published this autumn under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint.

Are the teachers’ colleges and schools of education mere diploma mills for teachers? The question came home to ALBERT LYND early in his experience as a member of the school board in his home town in Massachusetts. Mr. Lynd took his A.B. and A.M. at Harvard; after a year of further study in Belgium he taught history at Stanford and Harvard; but not until he had been elected to a school board did he appreciate the changes in our public schools and the ironbound and stultifying system which is producing the accredited teachers in the schools today. Mr. Lynd speaks as a parent and an ex-teacher now happily established in business in Boston.