Public Relations and Analytic Teaching

Abstract

Introduction:  A newspaper article is reponsible for Texas Wesleyan College having an Analytic Teaching Program.  Joe Mitchell, dean of the School of Education at Wesleyan, was reading the New York Times and came across an article about Matthew Lipman's Philosophy for Children Program.  Mitchell's interest was piqued and he wrote to Lipman in New Jersey for information about the program.  Nearly two years later, after Mitchell had received Lipman's materials and had interested Wesleyan President Jon H. Fleming in the possibility of starting a similar program at the College, Ronald Reed came to Fort Worth to direct the Analytic Teaching Program - all on the basis of a single newspaper story.