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Desegregating Ages. Worse, says Illich, much of what schools now teach is a waste. As he sees it, "most people acquire most of their knowledge outside of school," the way children master speaking and walking. Middle-class parents tacitly admit the potency of nonschool learning, Illich observes dryly, when they...
Making history?not living in its vainglories and myths?is the challenge and promise of the South today. The Southern frontier closed in that awful moment when the first man came to the South in bondage, locking the Southern experience into its tragic course. Three and one-half centuries later...
Black graduates, at the moment, are proportionately having less trouble than whites. Job offers are down, but by only 10% says the director of a place ment service for 60 Negro colleges. More important, though, the opportunities are wider. The proportion of blacks going into teaching has dropped from 80...
Despite its faults, Owen Wingrave is a stimulating example of how technology, tape and the small screen may someday acquire a highly useful role in opera. A switch to slow motion, with an accompanying abrupt shift from color to monochrome, helps evoke real horror as the legend is retold of...
How did so sophisticated a creature acquire such an unwarranted reputation? For one thing, the first Neanderthal bones were dug just about the time that Darwin astonished the world with his announcement that man and ape were descended from a common ancestor. Neanderthal's apish image was further enforced...