Considers the paradoxical relationship between two pervasive educational goals--quality and equality. Sees this paradox embedded in John Stuart Mill's writings on education, which attempted to reconcile the utilitarian pleasure principle (which emphasizes quantitative measures), with a traditional differentiation among levels and kinds of desires…

The author critiques parts of the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education. He argues that the goals of national supremacy and individual gain ignore the role school could play in altering significant objective conditions of society and the ideology which justified those conditions. (MT)

Assuming that basic convictions of teachers with respect to the purposes and processes of education are related to teaching behavior, then ways of improving effectiveness may vary according to belief orientations. Four scales useful in belief typing are presented as being of potential value in research. (MT)

Refutes claims that "our society and its education institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling, and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them." Calls for a united effort to translate for the public the needs and accomplishments of education. (DMM)

This article describes four possible conceptions of education, each with its own standards of excellence. These conceptions are called the technical, the rational, the personal, and the social. The authors argue for adoption of the social responsibility conception of educational excellence as a national goal. (MT)

Well-known peoples' views concerning the intrinsic value of music and the importance of music education are presented. The statements represent a few entries from the Music Educators National Conference's new publication "Testimony to Music." (RM)

The mirror drawing apparatus (MDA) is a valuable experiential learning tool with specific applications in general psychology, educational psychology, and recruiting. Specific applications are described. (Author/RM)

Through aesthetic education, students become sensitized to reason, beauty, and excellence as they relate to human feeling. Aesthetic education can be justified for everyone as a paradigm of education itself. The study of music is the most effective method of teaching aesthetic perception. (RM)

Two students talk about the place of music education in their lives. For many students with little time or money, school classes are the only means of acquiring a music education. These classes teach discipline and cooperation and provide a sense of accomplishment. (CS)

While finding that the need for literacy and coordinated cooperation between developing countries, international organizations, and "donor" agencies is imperative, the author finds that abolishing illiteracy is possible only in the context of eradicating hunger, poverty, and oppression; the priorities are elsewhere. (SK)

Athletics have become too dominant on the contemporary educational scene and must be put back into a position from which they can contribute to the development of our youth without interfering with their academic growth. (Author/PGD)

Four uses of humanities studies are discussed: applicative, replicative, associative, and interpretive. (RM)

Creativity requires the freshness and openness of a childlike vision. By teaching and encouraging children to write creatively, to write poetry, teachers are helping them to respond and react to the world about them and to understand it verbally. (RM)

Literature, properly conceived and properly taught, is vital to the task of engendering a people who feel and act on sympathy, on compassion and understanding. This is man's best education. (Author/RK)

Author pinpoints what he believes to be a legitimate complaint about today's schools and suggests what the underlying cause is for this shortcoming. (Author/RK)