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...highly efficient in training servicemen for specific tasks, partly because it is easier to keep a trainee interested in mastering a diesel engine than in shunning split infinitives. The services have been far ahead of public schools in the use of training films, overhead projectors, programmed instruction, individual audio aids, and closed-circuit television. Under McNamara, they have been pressured to prune all nonessential information from their training programs to increase efficiency-and the pruning works. When superfluous material was cut out of a communications repair course at Fort Knox, the rate of flunk-outs dropped from...
Testing the amphitheater's loudspeaker system with a Bach cantata recently, audio engineers got a big surprise: when they turned it off, residents complained about losing "all the nice music." As a result they now hear Bach and other classical composers nightly...
...NIGER Under the Ministry of Education, Volunteers will travel between villages to teach adults basic literacy in native languages, French and arithmetic. An artist will help develop audio-visual aids. Those under Ministry of Health will work in social centers and rural dispensaries, teaching hygiene, sanitation, infant are, sewing, cooking and literacy. Nurses will teach theoretical and practical work to students at the nursing school in Niamey...
What gives the U.S. sixth-graders the advantage, Professor Gibson specu- lates, is the "possibly higher level of training of U.S. teachers," combined with more sophisticated audio-visual aids and teaching techniques. Moreover, "students can only learn so much by a certain age," and the head start the British get in reading and writing makes no difference by the time children reach the sixth grade...
...spontaneous thrust of a live performance. Says one violinist-Name me the recording that can give you the electricity, the magnetic quality that you get from a great live performance. It's like hearing Laurence Olivier instead of actually seeing him play Hamlet." But soon, with new video-audio tapes now under development the home audience will see Olivier as well as hear...