Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Educated as an organic chemist (University of Glasgow), Sir Alexander got interested in the complex chemical compounds that abound in living cells. Biologists knew little in those days about these compounds which are so unstable that attempts to study them usually destroy them. Sir Alexander tried a new approach. Applying the subtle methods of organic chemistry, he synthesized, one by one, a wide range of delicate biochemicals, including vitamins E and B1. His research led him to the nucleus of the cell, where the all-powerful genes are stored. These mysterious chemicals, which control heredity and growth, are made...
Asked Principal William H. Cornog of New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill.: "How free and wide-ranging should your curriculum be? Not nearly as free and loose as it has become under the pressures of a consumer approach to public education." It is high time "we make the raw assumption that it is the mind of the student with which the school is most concerned" and not with his adjustment to society. "The schools are not in business to teach anything to anyone or everything to everyone. They are not to be confused . . . with shopping centers...
Another example of the theory of education is furnished by the combination in 1949 of the School of Humanistic Studies and the School of Economics and Politics into the School of Historical Studies. The Institute felt that the study of economics and politics was not ideally suited to the approach to learning which the Institute should take. The Institute has only limited facilities for statistical analysis and is some-what divorced by both location and philosophy from current affairs. In such an atmosphere the systematic study of economics and politics seemed somewhat out of place...
Religion = Nationalism? The new government program carefully avoids the word "religious." In its pamphlet distributed to teachers last week, the Ministry of Education refers to learning about Talmud and Torah, tallith and tefillin as "inspiration from the glorious past of the Jewish nation." This sedulously secular approach, many teachers in religious schools think, dooms the program from the start. Said one teacher: "Sacred matters are being treated as if they were small change. The children will be confused and unimpressed...
Provincial Approach...