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...Columbia University Teachers College, differs from the Montessori plan in that it stresses the child's supervised intellectual growth rather than its undirected development. At Columbia the pupil is taken to see a hangar full of airplanes which he is encouraged to copy in clay, wax or crayon in the classroom. Under the Dewey method, the child has opportunity for creative expression which the less plastic Montessori equipment does not allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Return of Montessori | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...their 19-year-old foster-son Ronald to follow his foster-father's footsteps and run an elevator. Ronald is not unwilling, but he hopes that perhaps the world holds for him something more purposeful than an elevator. Ronald's reason: last week he had 60 watercolors, charcoal and crayon drawings ?athletes in action, ships in dock?on exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He had been singled out as the most promising current artist product of New York City's public school system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Industrial Ingredient | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...sustain a long flight, and the inertia that barely permits me to write at all. And finally when I became a teacher, here was the length that could be compassed after the lights of the House were out and the sheaf of absurd French exercises indignantly marked with red crayon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Concentrated Extract | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...chance at some fine nonsense, but falls a little flat as compared with the representation of Utopia, which whimsicality is perfect. This reader will not forget the delightful idea of the Strata eating an English Muffin. The drawing of the subway rush demonstrates the usefulness of lithographers' crayon which Lampy should not overlook in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reviewes Finds Current Lampoon Has Dropped Traditional Brooks Brothers Garb--C. H. Platt Applauds the Change | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...explained a leaflet signed by famed Explorer William Beebe-were part of an artistic haul made by three painters who accompanied him to Haiti on the tenth expedition of the New York Zoological Society. "Never, I believe," wrote Explorer Beebe. "has any one country been so vividly presented in crayon, water color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fish & Faces | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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