Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems of growth." It soon became clear that little Norbert was a scientific prodigy, one of the most brilliant ever to appear in the U.S. At nine he entered high school; at eleven he was enrolled at Tufts College, a dumpy little boy with thick glasses who found the classroom seats disconcertingly large...
...privately and publicly with respect to past and present associations. There are indications that the committees are interested in the composition of the faculties, the textbooks used and the curricula. In the instance of at leant one college professor, a student has been subpoenaed for the purpose of repeating classroom discussions...
Father Pedro manages the school with 14 Ave Maria alumni. Each hedged-in classroom plot has a shed to guard against sudden showers, but the only closed building on the campus is a chapel decorated by gypsy painters. Geography is taught on large relief maps that have fresh water coursing through their lakes and rivers. Students cross the Straits of Gibraltar in a stride, hop the Mediterranean, stand on capital and continent while they sing their lessons. As they learn arithmetic, they themselves represent numbers, move about like chessmen singing easy, arithmetic rhymes. In other classes, they act out Spain...
...automatically disqualifies a teacher. But assuming that it does not, says he, there is still no way to tell whether a teacher is indoctrinating or not. "How would we find out? Would we observe him in class? No one indoctrinates when he is under observation. Episodic inspection in the classroom can enable one to tell something about the pedagogic techniques of a teacher . . . [But] except in its crudest forms, indoctrination in the classroom can rarely be detected save by a critically trained observer who is almost continuously present. This is not only undesirable but, for all practical purposes, impossible...
...cannot detect a teacher engaged in skillful indoctrination by classroom visits, what about questioning his students from time to time and alerting them on what to observe? Even if we could rely on students to do this, it would be a sad day in the history of American education were we to degrade our students by impressing them into the kind of service made so notorious in Communist police states. Far better to leave Communist teachers to do as they please than to cast their students in the role of informers...