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Vol. V No. 2
EDITORIAL
Fare
well
Ma
cdonald
FaU 1970
Aft er sixty -three years on the campus endowed by Sir Willia m Mac d onald,
McG ill ' s teacher preparation program returns downtow n. This FaU, the
Facu lt y of Education moves to a new build ing on McT av ish and Peel, but
leaves behind these glimpses of the Class of '70, the last graduates in
ln recent years
the trend has
been away trom
large lectures to-ward s small group work
Or individual instruction.
But . . .
. . . No format is perfect!
Stu d ents wor k independe nt ly
Enthusiastically
at
Creative Dramatics,
Cooperatively in Methods.
This must be New Math.
Then ther es Art and Sc ience. ;' - _ ••_1 Methods, Academies, Foundations and Pract ice Teaching
ail lead to GRADU A TIO N
The last Education Commencement in Glenfinnan Rink ,June 1, 1970. David
C. Munroe, former Director of the Institute of Education, rec ei v es an honorary LL.D.
Phot ogr a phs :
M. Hinel ine
P. He arsey
120 Ed itorial
The nosta lg ia of times past will stay with us for a while,
but in our nex t Journal we shall also focus on the excitement
and expectatio ns of things ta come. Our Spring 1971 issue will
be a "special" ta celebrate bath the official opening of the new
Faculty of Education build ing and McGi11 University's
sesquicen-tennial anniversary.
Meanwhile, in this is s ue, we have an extraordinary number
of fighting words. The nom-de-plumed "M. Josephus Poole"
repeats David Riesman's judgment about the collision cou rse of
the American univers ity .* "T he American university is not run
at ail . . . it is going ta pieces." he says and, "The whole c
on-ception of administration provided by Grayson Kirk and e
x-pounded by Jacques Barzun is hollow idiocy."
- "T o day . . . the very existence of the university as an
aca-demic institution seems in jeopardy," Brian Hendley.
- "T he guerrilla teacher sees schools as essentially political
institutions and only secondarily, when at ail, as educational
ones . . . ,II Fred Staab.
- "T he schoo l may be, but is not necessarily, an educational
institutio n," Mark Braham.
- " . . . demonstrably, a large segment of our national ed
uca-tional establishme nt is disoriented, discredited, and visibly
breaking down at ail levels . . . But, . . . is the Savage in fact
as Noble as he is cracked up ta be? and are we, in fact, on the
eve of the Apocalypse? " Gerald Kamber.
Read on ...
M.G.
* Cf. David Riesman , "Inf lati on in Higher Education," M.J. E., Spring 1970, pp. 3-12.
