Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come for him because his mother had suffered a heart attack. Could the boy be released from school to go to his mother's bedside? A nun went to get Bobby, while the woman entered the school's tranquil chapel and knelt in prayer. Down from his classroom, Bobby gave her a long, slow look but, trusting in the wisdom of adults, accompanied her without protest. "I'm not a Catholic," said the woman on leaving, "but I hope He heard my prayers." Replied the nun: "I am sure He heard them." Then woman and child...
...Dewey said, " 'Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.' When this had gone through the long and circuitous route to the classroom, it was understood to mean that the schools should not be overly concerned with preparing the child for anything except possibly the strenuous social activity which we have mentioned. The high school should not worry about whether it was preparing the student for college, and the elementary school should not concern itself with preparing the child for high school...The school was to be merely a specialized environment, in which the child lived...
...professors disagreed however on the need for acting courses within the curriculum. "It is quite appropriate," said Levin, "that this lab should be an extracurricular activity. Although we do have courses in dramatic literature here, this sort of technical thing can best be done outside the classroom...
...nature very close. With a faculty of over 400, few College courses have an enrollment exceeding 40 students. Since the emphasis for faculty tenure at Ohio is placed on teaching rather than writing, professors spend a great deal of time with students outside the classroom in late discussions, instead of rushing off to a dark corner of some library to work on a technical paper...
...same time, another article (in the same section), mentions a new high school where, "through an elaborate closed TV circuit, observers can tune in on any classroom at any time." This is something right out of George Orwell's 1984 ... It's going to be a long pull, Brother Lynd...