Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...safe is it to let fascination guide one's education? Is "WOW" enough to make reading a sentence or seeing a picture valuable, if there is no "discipline" involved? Shall we let our children read the comic books of yester-year...
...Perhaps small children should study history by reading old children's books. Argument: the purpose of history is to give enlightenment through acquisition of the "historical sense." For this purpose, the past must be made real. Find snatches of the past to which children can relate most intensely...
...values of apparent crater diameter and depth in dry soil as a function of explosion veiled. Given a 20 KT surface burst over sandstone, find the crater dimensions. (Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 4th ed.) Such a reorientation in education might alter the balance of interest on the part of children away from TV or comics toward school...
...opposition to the ugly war in Vietnam. We urge you to contribute at least the cost of your meal to the work of the American Friends Service Committee in the Amputee Ward and Prosthetic Unit at the hospital in Quang Ngai and to their Day Care Center for refugee children in that city, as well as for the medical supplies and surgical equipment they sent to the NLF and North Vietnam. Over 1500 Radcliffe and Harvard students have already committed themselves to a thirty-hour fast beginning on Friday and have arranged for the cost of their meals...
Included among the audience were the teenage children of several Governors who disagreed with the President...