Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Montreal, Nova Scotia's Dalhousie University, the top-rank University of Toronto, and four big western provincial universities -are pouring out more graduates than ever. But the typical Canadian student nowadays is just as likely to be found at an "instant university," sitting in a ground-floor classroom while builders finish the upper stories. For the country has a clear goal: it wants to move from higher-educating a relatively elite 15% of its college-age population to a 1975 level of 271% (currently the U.S. proportion...
...classroom atmosphere in China was much more formal than is usually case here another reminder of the feudal past. The combination of traditional deference to age and the necessity for strict discipline in the early stages of socialist development were clearly visible in the teacher-student relationship...
...many complex decisions have come on Mondays that reporters have occasionally been less than accurate. A notorious example was the 1962 school-prayer decision, when much of the press declared that God had been banished from the classroom and the Supreme Court was heaped with abuse it did not deserve. Now that decisions will be strung out during the week, reporters should have ample time to study and assess them more accurately...
...Unityville, S. Dak., a twelve-family hamlet 42 miles northwest of Sioux Falls, Mrs. Alice Lundberg, 36, drives her white '59 Mercury eight miles from her farmhouse each morning to reach the white wooden schoolhouse by 7:45 a.m. Alone in the 28-ft. by 25-ft. classroom, she spends 80 minutes plotting the day's 36 separate topics for her 17 pupils, who come from seven nearby farm families. She teaches them on six grade levels, from first to eighth (she has no sixth and seventh graders). The 68-year-old school is surrounded by corn...
Applause of Juveniles. By contrast, Novelist Richard G. Stern frets at Chicago about the fact that "some faculty members consider me a bit of a sport-amusing, but not to be attended to too seriously." He sees a danger in the classroom, where the artist is "put in a position of power and becomes more quickly satisfied, going away delighted with the applause of juveniles." Others find the criticism of students only too candid. At U.C.L.A., Writer-Playwright Christopher Isherwood patiently answers Questions aimed at baring his soul: "What do you think about God?" "Have you changed your mind about...