… a remarkable book… . A most penetrating study of education. –Saturday Review of Literature … an admirable defense of the critical mind in education … Sidney Hook is among the the Children of the Light, that is to say, of the Enlightenment. –Albert Guerard, New York Herald Tribune … Mr. Hook has put his finger … upon the profound fallacy of most of the current attempts to ‘reorganize’ higher education … exciting reading –Howard Mumford Jones, New York Times … needed by anyone who wishes to have a comprehensive view of the problems of modern education. –Wendell Johnson, Chicago Sun Sidney Hook brings … a new high standard of sanity and clarity… . For sheer excellence of logic, and for magic of comprehensiveness, the book is head and shoulders above all recent competitors. –William Randel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch … a fine book … it has the advantage of Mr. Hook’s dissecting mind, operating with the cleanness of a surgical instrument. –Jerome Nathanson, The New Republic Wisely sane. –John Dewey