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Christian schoolmen concede such un-Christian influences on the movement in the past, but not today. After comparing Christian school enrollment in Louisville with that in Madison, Wis., Education Researchers Virginia Nordin and William Turner concluded that the schools in both cities had sprung up primarily out of moral and religious concerns...
...long as we have enough Mannings to teach the young, we need not worry about the acrobats and the tightrope walkers who attract the headlines. They will pass, and the schoolmen will endure...
...real meaning of the grace-period decision depends on one key question: whether Finch's momentary retreat is a hint of weaker stands to come. Both Thurmond in his satisfaction and the Journal in its anguish have worked from the common assumption that it is. So have many Southern schoolmen, who now imagine that the desegregation plans they finally conjure up won't have to be too rigorous to meet Nixon administration standards...
Philosophers and theologians have always debated the morality of debt. Aristotle condemned the charging of interest as "most unnatural," the early Christians considered it sinful, and the Schoolmen of the Middle Ages equated it with usury-until the Reformation, and notably John Calvin, defended interest under certain conditions. The last of the Schoolmen really was Karl Marx, who preached that interest meant exploitation. Only lately have some of the Communist governments in Eastern Europe begun to move away from this paralyzing doctrine...
Federal spending on education will obviously keep growing, and the influence of Keppel's office, which is already being expanded, will be considerable. But to a surprising degree, the old fear of federal control has faded. Schoolmen have been working with federal money for years, and though they may object to some of the paper work, they have discovered that so far Washington has never tried to tell them what or how to teach. "I believe in local control," says New York's Commissioner Allen. "But local control also means that you allow a community...