Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...techniques used in the program are not new," he states. "They are merely an extension of classroom music instruction methods." Nevertheless, Woodworth says that "I get a tremendous kick out of doing the show--probably because no one has ever tried to give this sort of listening opportunity to radio audiences...
Near the Mount Zion Methodist Church just outside Atlanta, on Highway 41, a onetime barbecue pit has been turned into a Bible classroom. One evening recently, eleven disciples watched Robert L. West go over and flip off the light switch. "It's kinda dark in here without the lights," apologized West, as he walked behind the crepe-wrapped white cross now lighted up by two candles, "but I would ask you to look upon this symbol-perhaps the greatest in the world...
Open is a triumph of individual self-reliance and modern administrative techniques; it boasts a sensitive and scientific admissions policy, a highly developed system of student-administered justice, and completely free and open classroom discussions. At the same time, student responsibility has developed to the point where a university police force, a hygiene department, and even a Dean's office have been eliminated as without reason or function. Open's supremely representative and well-rounded student body is mature and intelligent enough to "take care of just about anything that may come...
...mere analysis of the majestic phrases of the constitution cannot hope even to suggest the remarkable degree of freedom in and out of the classrooms at Open. The fact of the matter is that any student may say anything in the classroom at any time, provided that in the opinion of the majority present, it is pertinent to the subject. Sociologists might describe education at the university as a four-year non-directive interview, or as it is now more commonly known--an Open ended interview...
...primary result of utterly free classroom discussion is, as a psychologist might gather, a student body completely free of suppression neuroses and abnormal personal problems. On the other hand the constant interruption by students of the lecturing professors does slow down the dissemination of factual knowledge. Consequently in the more populous courses, it occasionally takes up to a year and a half to complete a half-year course...