Some statements by some adherents of Sir Isaac Newton notwithstanding, I for one see no particular reasons to suppose that there be something naturally wrong with the city of Leipzig or with its average inhabitant.The reason for this page : The Leipzig Connection by Paolo Lionni, Sheridan, Ohio : Delphian Press, 1988.
Follow data copied by me from the Los Angeles Public Library catalogue on 19 August 2006
Call # 370.15 L763 1988
Author Lionni, Paolo, 1938-
Title(s) The Leipzig connection : the systematic destruction of American education / Paolo Lionni.
Publisher Sheridan, Or. : Delphian Press, c1988.
Paging x, 103 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Series Basics in education ; 1
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-103)[ . . . ]
No print copies currently available. This may be a new title being processed, a lost item or an electronic book. Or, if "Format: serial" appears above, call Central Library Subject Dept for holdings.
On this date (19 Aug 06) the title (and the author) were absent at
* The New York Public Library
* The AMAZON.COM did not show anything under 'Paolo Lionni'.
The book is listed by the University of California and is available at some outlets (by my "Search" on the Internet).
I see no sufficient reason for the lack of such, in many respects seemingly average, title in the major public libraries ; or in the AMAZON.COM who usually feature even lesser known texts even if they be "out of print".
So there may be something to this. The book treats of the influence by the German 'psychologist' Wundt's followers on the education in the USA —
WPT