Ulich Calls Bush Essay Ambiguous

An essay critical of present day "mass education," as substituting quantity for quality, written by a professor of English for the magazine section of the Sunday New York Times, was sharply attacked by a professor of Education last night.

Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education, accused Douglas Bush, Walter Changing Fellow, of using "undefined and ambiguous statements" and "unsubstantiated generalizations."

Bush, who later said he was "definitely not talking about Harvard," deplored the lower standards in education resulting from the "flood of students" pouring into colleges and universities.

Disservice to Education

While stating that he agreed with several of Bush's criticisms, Ulich asserted, "I am afraid that Mr. Bush does not do a service to the cause of education, as he could have done with more knowledge and moderation, and as it stands now, the whole thing is a pity."

Ulich quoted several of the points made in the magazine article to back up his condemnation. He said that the statement of "an appalling growth of illiteracy. it all levels, even in the gradual scalpels," the confirms of the riding flood of students" to the "barbarian invasions." And the remarks about "an army of misfits," were all either unsubstantial or ambiguous.

Intellectual Education

"It is a moot question whether education is purely intellectual, since Plate, and the greatest of our educational leaders have not thought so, but have put it added. "Finally how can one seriously in a moral and social context," Ulich call John Dewey's philosophy "a philosophy of barbarism," even if one is, as I am, highly critical of it."

Bush made several other attacks on current educational policies. He complained that college freshmen were so devoid of "the rudiments of expression" that they needed the elementary composition course, which he described as a "monstrosity."

Large lecture courses, the neglect of foreign languages, and the cheapening of Ph.D.'s, also came under the sting of Bush's criticism