PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gleason, H.
TI  - What Grammar?
AID  - 10.17763/haer.34.2.6627k04824363882
DP  - 1964 Jul 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 267--281
VI  - 34
IP  - 2
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/34/2/267.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/34/2/267.full
SO  - herp1964 Jul 01; 34
AB  - An educated man should be able to think rationally and incisively about his environment and about his human situation. Yet the ideal of the educated man is seldom approached in one of the most significant facets of his life: language. Adult Americans are badly informed about language and endemically prone to naive reasoning on any linguistic question. Moreover,they have no better insight into their own English tongue than into language in general, and this is, perhaps, the most serious failure of liberal humanistic objectives in American education.