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  • Numbers, Please!

  • John R. Thelin
  • Journal:
    History of Education Quarterly / Volume 53 / Issue 2 / May 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 January 2017, pp. 150-156
    Print publication:
    May 2013

  • Publishing deadlines can be a nuisance for an author. For example, in 1972 when the editor of Rolling Stone magazine pressed Truman Capote on why he had promptly cashed his advance payment check yet had failed to submit his manuscript more than a month after the publishing deadline, Capote replied, “Do you want an article that is timely or timeless?” Much to Capote's chagrin, the editor replied, “Both!” Capote's response was “Neither”—and the project fell apart. Little wonder, then, that I was pleasantly surprised to receive the invitation from the History of Education Quarterly to explain to colleagues what topic I would choose if I were to have the luxury of writing forever. After the exhilaration of being both timely and timeless wore off, I realized the invitation was problematic.