Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elwood Kretsinger, professor of speech at the University of Oklahoma, announced that he had invented a device to enable teachers to tell whether their charges are interested in their work or not. He strings wires generating an electromagnetic field to the backs of classroom chairs, connects them to a special paper chart. When pupils yawn and wiggle, their boredom will promptly show up-as waves and jiggles on the chart...
...historian turned publisher, Earle W. Newton likes to be told he can't do something. Two years ago, he sounded out other publishers on his idea for a magazine to rescue U.S. history from classroom dullness, dramatize it in an illustrated quarterly with at least 16 pages of color. The experts warned him that he couldn't possibly start such a magazine with less than $100,000. Anyway, it would have too limited a market to pay off. Newton raised $2,000 from fellow historians, and went ahead...
Edward Thorndike, the era of the modern pedagogue had begun. The traditional classroom was being attacked from all sides. Like Dewey, Kilpatrick held that there are no philosophical absolutes, that "criticized experience is the final test of all things." That being the case, education had to be designed anew...
Besides, the House deans were not supposed to be strictly disciplinary fellows like the present assistant deans. They were to be, preferably, senior faculty members, actively engaged in teaching halt the time. They would presumbaly have enough contact with their House members in the classroom and in the dining hall to be able to do a more personal job on disciplinary matters than the deans centered in University Hall...
Though he is a teacher at heart, Don Herbert hates the dry stuffiness of a classroom as much as any truant schoolboy. On Mr. Wizard, his popular science show for kids (Sat. 5 p.m., NBC-TV), he uses brief, ad lib comment instead of hectoring lectures, everyday objects like balloons and tumblers instead of beakers and fractionating columns, and he would rather conduct his experiments with a potato or a spinning top than with test tubes and Bunsen burners...