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From the 11 students in the original group two sections--five who believed in psychokinesis and five who did not--were formed, with the 11th member serving as impartial gardener. Each person prayed or thought over an individual tray of corn seeds for 1b minutes a day, three times a week for two weeks...
What could be more rote drill than Skinner's "one-step-at-a-time teaching, immediately 'reinforcing' each correct response with a grain of corn." What could be more inflexible than this or the sample of a programed high school physics lesson as shown...
Five years ago, the Andean highlands of southern Peru were hit by disastrous drought. The 1,000,000 Indian peasants, who chronically suffer from malnutrition, faced outright famine. From Point Four headquarters in Washington went orders that sent 100,000 tons of surplus corn, wheat, barley and dried milk on its way to Peru. The tragic story of just how little of the food found its way into the stomachs of starving Peruvians emerged last week, thanks to a congressional committee in Washington and a hard-digging U.S. newspaperman in Lima...
...father Harvard's eminent Behavioral Psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner. By "conditioning" experiments. Skinner had produced such laboratory oddities as pigeons playing pingpong. Pigeons are hardly bright, but Skinner made them smart by one-step-at-a-time teaching, immediately "reinforcing" each correct response with a grain of corn. Soon the pigeons blithely pecked a ball back and forth across a small table...
Poet (and "Mature Bohemian") Ken neth Rexroth, 55, who wrote the libretto, knew that it was "potentially full of corn." but did it because "I'm kind of tired of Freud and Jung in ballet." Adds Director Lew Christensen of the San Francisco Ballet: "It's a good story, and the audience is not belabored with reading pro gram notes to find out what's going on." As the ballet opens, a spinning sun swirling over a landscape like a moon crater gives way to a lush Garden of Eden where two angels. Raphael and Lucifer, poke...