UNIFORM STANDARDS FOR EAGLES AND EELS: A FABLE RELATED TO CURRICULUM AND EVALUATION

Résumé

One often hears of the need for redirecting the educational program to meet the manifold needs, interests, and aptitudes of the children and youth whom we wish to serve and satisfy the desires of the public which pays so well for the service. It has been said that we need "a broad, cultural, definitive, esthetic, finite, general" education for all - equally good for all. In some school circles a little fable is circulated that's supposed to have a moral relating to all this. Here is the fable. You figure out the moral.