We have innovated cautiously, taking baby steps where giant steps are needed. Instead of experimenting boldly with promising new ideas, our innovations have been introduced with caution and trepidation. The bravery with which schools introduce new heresies can best be compared to the quavering whistle of a man taking a short cut through a cemetery at midnight in the dark of the moon.
—B. Frank Brown (1963)
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