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Annapolisman Rickover denounced progressive education, which "makes its pernicious influence felt in the steady deterioration of the secondary school curricula, and overlong elementary schooling." His remedy: "Turn back to the home what is properly the function of the home, and permit the public schools to concentrate on what is properly their function-the education of young minds...
...Division of Engineering and Applied Physics has regained accreditation by the Engineers' Council for Professional Development in its mechanical and civil engineering curricula for B.S. candidates, Dean Harvey Brooks disclosed yesterday. These areas were on probation after the April, 1954 survey until the Council's re-evaluation in April...
...burdened with enough grades as it is. Improvement of tutorial will come only from more subtle measures, which will improve student and tutor interest: careful planning of each tutorial, use of tutors only within their fields of interest, and a softening of the more confining departmental requirements for tutorial curricula. Only when the student wants to work because of the intrinsic interest of the material and the enthusiasm of the tutor will tutorial produce real education...
...What is demanded,'' added Princeton's Philosopher Jacques Maritain, a Roman Catholic, "is to get rid of those absurd prejudices which can be traced back to the Renaissance and which banish from the blessed land of educational curricula a number of authors and matters under the pretext that they are specifically religious, and therefore not 'classical,' though they matter essentially to the common treasure of culture. The writings of the Fathers of the Church are an integral part of the humanities as well as, or more than, those of the Elizabethan dramatists." The traditional classical...
...conclusions reached by Philip E. Jacob in his study of Changing Values in College are valid, then a good many educators, here and elsewhere, have been wasting a good deal of time attempting to revise their curricula and their methods of teaching...