Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time the House had flailed its way into the third day of debate over the Administration's civil-rights bill last week, it was like a big classroom of spirited boys with teacher out sick and vacation only a few days off. Good-naturedly, the Southern Democrats exchanged verbal spitballs with Northern Republicans and Democrats while both sides talked on for the sake of the record. Everybody knew that the Southern bloc had delayed the bill* so long that it would never get by the Senate this session. So the proceedings went forward in a spirit of good, dirty...
...looking forward to an active, vigorous campaign under his leadership." This time the reporters gulped. "Are you telling us," asked one, "that the President told you he would keep his hat in the ring?" Said Knowland, savoring every second: "I am telling you precisely that." Moments later the classroom bell clanged through Glatfelter Hall, and the reporters took the cue to dash for their telephones...
First of all, said Wagner, it soon "became abundantly evident that no young American could reasonably be expected to sit through one hour staring at the same face on the same small screen. Classroom TV is supposed to 'quicken an interest.' In fact, nothing turned out to be more dampening than the flickering image of an elderly teacher, looking weary and unshaven under the television lights. Jokes fall flat, emphasis is missed, and the lack of any personal relationship proves stultifying...
...classroom activities were broadcast from the Weeks Junior High School, where children voluntarily attend summer school. The televised classes make it possible for education students to observe demonstration classes without crowding into the classrooms themselves. Dr. Robert H. Anderson, chairman of the School of Education's Advisory Committee on Educational TV, explained that although the telecasts will be useful, they probably will not remove altogether the need for actual classroom visits...
...that, in the words of Edward Stanley of N.B.C., "orthodox education as such is not suited for broadcast to the general American public." Instead of just presenting a daily lesson in the conventional form, "television must illustrate the lesson by adding material that is not ordinarily available in the classroom," according to Herold C. Hunt, Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare...