The Goblin, Vol. 4: July, 1923 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Goblin, Vol. 4: July, 1923

The goose step. A study of American Education. By Upton Sinclair. Published by the author.

We have all met that intriguing person, usually, by the way, a newspaperman who has the inside story, the more or less lurid details behind such and such an institution or occurrence. The inside story is always startling and therefore, though a de lightful tidbit, often hard to swallow.

Upton Sinclair, in The Goose Step tells us what he sees going on behind the American educational institutions. It appears that the colleges are managed by the plutocrats for their own emolument. It appears that education has become deliber ately stereotyped so that the mental attitude of the college will be favorable to the capitalistic class. Mr. Sinclair goes into detail. He exposes each college separately and then takes all together. We are not well enough informed to dispute the accuracy of his information - indeed we do not feel inclined to do so - but many of his conclusions in regard especially to the atmosphere of university life seem overdrawn. It is more easy to believe that Upton Sinclair has in his zeal been inclined to take small exceptional instances as indicative of a general trend. It is, however, easier to believe that professors must use dis cretion in regard to their Opinions on the subject of economics. Etc in universities whose owners are Wall Street magnates. The same may be expected to apply to the students.

Startling as these revelations are, the remedy proposed is no less so Mr. Sinclair proposes that a professors' union be formed on the same basis as a labor union and that, failing to obtain satisfaction in an appeal for freedom of thought and expression, a general professional strike would be indicated.

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