Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total result never amounted to anything in the least like erudition. His faculty for ignoring and forgetting the innumerable things that he considered unimportant approached the phenomenal." He had practically no sense of humor, he was a vegetarian, and never understood Shakespeare. His theory of education: that a child knows all the right answers already, has only to be asked the right questions. On the rare occasions when a pupil needed severe punishment, instead of striking the child Alcott had the child strike...
...Gospels Held in Mr. Alcott's School, its theological and pedagogical heresies shocked Boston; the pupils dropped from 40 to 25, to ten, to three. Alcott shut up shop. He tried to open another school, had to close that in short order when he admitted a Negro child among the Brahmins. By this time he was $6,000 in debt...
Courses designed to meet the "real educational needs of current lift" will be given, with a large number treating modern problems. Some titles of courses are" "Industrial Organization and Control," "Constitutional Government and Dictatorship," "Contemporary France and Spain," and "Child Psychology...
...Child Psychology will be the subject of a half-year course to be given the first half of next year. It will be given by Roger G. Barker, whose appointment as instructor in Psychology next year was announced several days...
...Harvard man ought to be able to digest Aristotle and watch the baby with knowing eyes at the same time. Though Vassar may be pardoned for needing to learn about men, it seems doubtful whether those same men can be forgiven for coming to college without preliminary knowledge of child rearing...