Study supported by U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Project No. 5-8470-2-12-1.

From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. Adapted from a longer essay, "Schooling and Education, published in the 1969 edition of "The Great Ideas Today.

Report based on research conducted under contract N61339-67-C-0114 with the Naval Training Device Center, Orlando, Florida.

Study partially supported by a summer Fellowship from the University of Kentucky Research Foundation.

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