A Comparative Look at English, French and Soviet Education

AMONG THOSE wlio criticize tlu1 non-intellectual nature of American education there are a great many \vlio themselves fail to do the necessary intellectual spadework. Their own work substantiates the view that a non-com pulsive system of education such as the Americans enjoy can only work if people avail themselves fully of its opportuni ties. A free system provides the negative liberty of doing nothing as well as the positive liberty of working to the ut most. It is an unchallengeable criticism of education in the United States to say that the American people fail to put into it the kind of energy which made them world famous in all fields in the last two centuries. It is an equally unchallenge able criticism to say that those con cerned with improvement of education, professionals anil laymen alike, have failed to equip themselves adequately tor this important task.