If you are of a certain age, let us say old enough to be a grandparent, you have seen it happen in your life time. You do not need to be told that American public education at all levels has degenerated in the course of the last half century. It is difficult to determine fully the cause or causes. Partly to be blamed is the ascendancy in educational circles of a philosophy of education that in the name of progress emphasized experience at the expense of the inherited. . . .