I Went to Public School

Abstract

[In April 1954 we reprinted from The Seer a paper by Rev. Ralph T. Wolfgang entitled “I Would Choose the Residential School.” Later we had an opportunity to publish the manuscript from William Taylor, Jr., which appears here, but which at that time, for good editorial reasons, (not on the grounds of the particular position expressed in the article) we did not publish. We take this occasion to say as we have said before: We welcome varying or opposing views on moot questions; we do not discriminate among manuscripts on the grounds of the views expressed on a debatable question, provided the views do in our opinion contribute to the intelligent thinking on a subject and are expressed for no other purpose than for the information and enlightenment of the reader. However, we were unaware until more recently that Mr. Taylor's article was in fact the other of two opposite views presented as a pair on one and the same occasion—a meeting of an Inter-Branch Conference of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind. Had we understood that fact we would have presented both views together or in successive issues. In the circumstances we are pleased to do the next best thing at this late date by presenting the other half of the discussion, supporting public school education for blind children.—Editor.]