ABSTRACT
The newcomer to education soon finds that here, as in religion and politics, there are opposing sides. But instead of fundamentalist v. liberal, or Conservative v. Labour, he finds traditionalist v. progressive. Before long he feels he has to show his allegiance to one rather than the other, and it is at this point that the danger arises. For, as in many other aspects of life, instead of choosing freely, from both, those beliefs and attitudes which he considers good and proper, he finds he is expected to make a choice of one side or the other. He cannot select what he wants. This results in members of opposite camps having extreme views of each other, just as happens in racial conflicts, and showing a tendency to be uncritical of their side and excessively critical of the other.
