". a remarkable book. A most penetrating study of education." -- Saturday Review of Literature ". an admirable defense of the critical mind in education . Sidney Hook is among the the Children of the Light, that is to say, of the Enlightenment." -- Albert Guerard , New York Herald Tribune ". Mr.

Hook has put his finger . upon the profound fallacy of most of the current attempts to 'reorganize' higher education . exciting reading" -- Howard Mumford Jones, New York Times ". needed by anyone who wishes to have a comprehensive view of the problems of modern education." -- Wendell Johnson , Chicago Sun "Sidney Hook brings . a new high standard of sanity and clarity. For sheer excellence of logic, and for magic of comprehensiveness, the book is head and shoulders above all recent competitors." -- William Randel , St.

Louis Post-Dispatch ". a fine book . it has the advantage of Mr. Hook's dissecting mind, operating with the cleanness of a surgical instrument." -- Jerome Nathanson , The New Republic "Wisely sane." -- John Dewey.