Maria Montessori, who helped to revolutionize a whole generation’s concept of primary education, died in the Netherlands, age 81.

Modern U.S. educators are always trying to define the “aims” of education. But to a swelling chorus of critics, the definitions have a hollow sound. Last week, in an eloquent little book called Faith and Education (Abingdon-Cokesbury, $2), one of Manhattan’s leading Protestant clergymen told why. The Rev. George A….