Frontiersman

Education's Left Wing resides in or near Manhattan, earns its living chiefly by teaching at Columbia University's Teachers College. It is happily convinced that the present social & economic order is dying. Its favorite word for the future is "collectivism," which it refuses to define. But it knows that it will make small progress toward definition or reality until it draws forward-looking educators throughout the nation to its side. To that end it began last week to publish a monthly magazine called The Social Frontier. Besides sonorous editorials on its Cause, the first issue contained several readable articles by sympathetic oldsters. Venerable, profound Philosopher John Dewey began a discussion of Education and Social Reconstruction with a quotation from Amos 'n' Andy. Sociologist Henry Pratt Fairchild thwacked the New Deal -- for its conservatism. Historian Charles Austin Beard urged a democratic distribution of property. Editor of The Social Frontier and spearhead of the whole movement for a New Order through Education is George Sylvester Counts, 44, Professor of Education at Teachers College. He is a slender man of middle height with pompadoured brown hair, a deep voice, a bristly reddish mustache. Teachers Collegians flock to his classes. He is a prolific writer, can be counted on for a newsmaking speech at almost every educators' convention. He has taught Education at Yale, Harvard, University of Washington, University of Chicago. A leader in the Progressive Education movement, he lives on a farm in New Hope, Pa., last year sent his two young daughters to a one-room rural school. That he yearns toward the new frontier of social equality Professor Counts ascribes partly to the fact that he was born in Kansas, when the old frontier spirit was still strong. Since then he has studied Soviet Russia at first hand, discussed it in many a book and article. But he opposes "regimentation." would not have the Soviet system transferred wholesale to the U. S.

"The Social Frontier," he explains, "will advocate the raising of American life from the level of the profit system, individualism and vested class interests to the plane of social motivation, collectivism and classlessness."

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