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Elsewhere, the students swim, or study algebra, or high jump. They even bowl, with the aid of ten little bulbs that warm up to indicate which pins remain standing after the first roll...
...clash of two cultures both may gain. When 12,000 Arab troops landed at Gibraltar in A.D. 711, the invaders brought along with their scimitars a civilization that was far in advance of anything found in Europe during the Dark Ages. With the conquering Moslem armies came algebra, advances in medicine, chess, astronomy, paper instead of papyrus. Compared with heavy Romanesque, their architecture seemed to defy gravity, lifting lacy ceilings that appeared to float like airy tents above thin columns of jasper and porphyry, while within each courtyard water splashed from fountains, turning their Islamic buildings into cool cases...
Give Your Child a Superior Mind is sold with the promise that if carefully followed, it will help a child "read 150 words a minute, add, subtract, multiply and divide, understand fractions and simple algebra, even handle abstract concepts and interpret them creatively"-all before he is five. It was written by Siegfried Engelmann, a research associate at the University of Illinois' Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, and his wife Therese, a psychologist. They argue unconvincingly that such intellectual giants as Goethe, Leibnitz, Mill and Macaulay benefited less from genes than from early teaching, conclude that parents...
...controversy will rage until educators produce reliable studies of the long-range effects of parental preschool teaching. No one knows whether a grasp of algebra at five makes a boy a sharper mathematician at 25. Meanwhile, all the experts urge caution-and even Doman and the Engelmanns concede that impatient parents, who tense up when Timmy says "saw" as he looks at the word was, ought to forget the whole thing...
David Swanger, executive director of Upward Bound, said yesterday that the program had achieved important "changes in attitude" about school. "We're not a summer school--those who didn't know algebra when they came probably won't know it now. But they may be more willing to learn...