Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school teaches the usual British public-school curriculum, but in a way that would make most public teachers' hair stand on end. There are no examinations (says Headmaster Neill: "They are easy methods of discovering what isn't worth discovering"). There is no compulsion to attend classes. Says plump, pleasant Mrs. Neill: "The young children are so terribly active with their own interests, they often do not attend school much until they reach the age of twelve...
...Student Finance Committee spent $59 and the Curriculum and Tenure Committee accounted for $41. Fifty-one dollars was allocated to minor committee activities...
...Little, Too Few. There are only 4,000 psychiatrists in the U.S. to help unstrung people out of their mental muddles. Only 4% of the current medical-training curriculum is devoted to psychiatry. Spending on mental disease is comparatively low: according to A.P.A., U.S. citizens lay out $100 per case per year for polio research v. a measly 25? per case for psychoneurosis...
...Council has discovered is that while the fundamental spirit of General Education has met with ready welcome the attitude of first-year men toward specific questions poses knotty issues concerning the Program's actual future. 164 against 139 voted that GE courses should not be required in the College curriculum and should continue only under the present concentration-distribution structure. Consciously or not, such failure to support a mandatory universal program represents a real challenge to the central thesis of General Education. This is simply that in the thought and action of great men lies that "Western Tradition" which should...
...Council inquiry, prepared under the direction of Paul B. Coggins '45, was conducted last month by the Committee on Curriculum and Tenure. Students polled were enrolled in the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities courses...