WWW. "Dear Miss Sax: I am responding to your notes about incorporating the TV Guide into our reading curriculum. While I respect your enthusiasm, I regret to have to be ina [sic] position to reiterate that I have no intention to use any sucyh [sic] publication as an 'education tool,' as you call it. We have successfully taught reading to our charges using standard textbooks, and we shall continue to do so, no matter how 'popular' television might be. Regardless of any promise you might have observed in one of your pupils, my many years of educational experience, with countless students, have taught me that popularity is no substitute for a firm grounding in the basics."--Memo, dated April 4, 1969, found among the papers of Dr. Louis F. Sill, principal of G. Edward Mann Elementary School, New Jersey (1959-1979)

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