Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cavernous classroom No. 350 at Tokyo's Nihon University, 800 drowsy students, dressed mostly in the traditional black tunics and black trousers, stared dully at the far-off rostrum. Suddenly, the 8 a.m. mood was shattered by the magnified rumble of a professor clearing his throat into a powerful P.A. system-and a lecture on commercial law was under way. The Japanese call it masu puro kyōiku (mass-production education), the style of academic life in the world's most university-populated city. Within Tokyo are no fewer than 102 universities with nearly 500,000 students...
...reminded of the following story: A professor, finding that his time was too valuable to merely lecture, would prepare a full week's lectures over the weekend and tape them. Each day of the week he would have an assistant set the recorder up in the classroom. The professor, of course, was delighted at the system which afforded him much free time. After his taped lectures had been playing for several months, he decided to visit one of his classes himself. As he opened the door he saw his recorder on the front desk, merrily lecturing to 65 small...
...less for a family). The aged, the nonwhite and the small farm worker are particularly hard hit. In some Negro ghettos, 28% are unemployed-a higher rate than the U.S. as a whole experienced in the depths of the Depression. In addition, problems of air and water pollution, classroom shortages, inadequate mass transportation and urban decay plague the nation...
Kozol also contends that the students in these schools are often fed "a diet of banality and irrelevance which it is not worth the while of a child to learn or that of a teacher to teach." Of 32 different book series he had avail able in his classroom, the majority were more than ten years old. Creative children had to conform to the rigid thinking of teachers or face ridicule. He cites one gentle but emotionally disturbed boy who "drew lovely lyrical cows and pleasant horses lifting up their hooves to rub their noses" but only succeeded in throwing...
...Chemical demonstration was "one of the best classroom days ever at Harvard,' 'Maurice D. Ford '58, assistant senior tutor in Dunster House, said in an article he wrote for the November 11 issue of The New Republic...