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...cross words, no conflicts, no difficulties, nor, for that matter, any obligations or visible attachments," he says. "The old, the ugly or the unwanted is simply made to disappear through a manhole." From the New Left comes the criticism that since the show's emphasis is on achievement??learning letters and numbers­it is merely the bottom rung on the escalator to Charles Reich's Consciousness II. From the Old Guard comes the suspicion that the "switched-on" classroom is aimed at the eventual displacement of the teacher by an unsalaried cathode-ray tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Who's Afraid of Big, Bad TV? | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...PSYCHOLOGY OF ACHIEVEMENT??? Walter B. Pitkin?Simon & Schuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beer & Skittles* | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...something different, but he expects something different. In England you go to the university to develop yourself, while in America you go to the university to distinguish yourself. There you have a whole world of difference. In America a boy is always endeavoring to attain some outward sign of achievement???to make the college paper, to make one of the clubs or fraternities, to make the football team. The centre of gravity is in the world of action far more than in the world of thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Visitor | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

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