Second Thoughts: The Editor Comments

Abstract

This month the editor offers in place of his own comments two short articles that have already appeared in other publica tions but probably have not been seen by most BULLETIN readers. It took no second thoughts on his part to decide that these were worth sharing, so permission to reprint was immediately re quested and willingly given. This, we grant, is not the place in the magazine where we normally place material of this sort, but these two pieces appeared in the editor's mail after this issue of the magazine had been set in type and organized for printing. Thus, instead of holding them for some later month we took ad vantage of the flexibility the editor has in paging his Second Thoughts to present them in February.

Either article would do very well on its own, but since both in part are speaking to the same theme—unusual ways for using pupils' "wants to know" as templates for planning the content of instruction—the opportunity to present them together seemed a most happy coincidence. Each paper has more to it than this, but this alone is enough, I believe, to repay a schoolman for giv ing some of his reading time to them.