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With rough stuff and great patience, Ergil teaches his slow learners math, and in the bargain teaches them something of self-respect. Said one newly awakened child: "I want .to learn more about everything." When Ergil persuaded school officials to let him try to teach his backward youngsters algebra next year, there were twice as many volunteers from the slow learners as he could handle. Said Principal Baker-of the algebra project: "I don't believe it can be done, but if anyone can do it, he can." With an eye to state programs for low-IQ children...
Science and math? "Why should everybody pursue algebra, physics and chemistry? Must everyone play the piano, or play football? Granted that a knowledge of arithmetic and general science is essential, how far beyond that are low-ability students supposed to go?" Summing-up Hollinshead credo: "We do not believe that human truth is always and everywhere the same. We believe it varies and changes with time and place . . . We also believe that education has something to do with preparing the student to be able to adjust (horrible word of the critics...
...Committee admitted that "all we can hope for in the entering student is some instruction in elementary algebra and plane geometry," and then went on to say that "a specific level of proficiency in mathematics is not at present required for admission to Harvard College, nor do we propose that...
...Committee was not fully prepared to put general education in the natural sciences on a footing with the other two divisions. The program in natural sciences is set up with such a low standard of achievement that a man can leave the College knowing a little high school algebra and plane geometry, having an idea of the biological developments through history, and nothing else. It is possible to graduate from Harvard with no conception whatsoever of the physical sciences; and yet perhaps more than any other force over the past 150 years the physical sciences have shaped the form...
Street felt that "every student should have good preparation in at least one science, advanced algebra, trigonometry and geometry," while Kistiakowsky pointed out the need for students to get a feeling for a few of the sciences...