Word: deweyitis
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...Tennessee's Dewey Warren, 21, and Johnny Mills, 21, have had only a soso, 3-2 season-on the Scoreboard. Which was to be expected, since their school scheduled Georgia Tech (No. 6 ranked) and Alabama (No. 4) back to back. The Vols lost both games by a total of four points. Neither loss was the fault of Quarterback Warren, who has hit on 61 out of 99 passes for a completion percentage of 62%-or of Split End Mills, who has caught...
Great Experiment. American colonialism in the Philippines was a novel exercise in "enlightened imperialism." When the former Spanish colony dropped suddenly into Admiral Dewey's hands on May 1, 1898, President William McKinley was so surprised that, as he later said, "I went down on my knees and prayed Almighty God for light and guidance." He needed it, for the Aguinaldo bolomen would have tried the patience of the most saintly President. Like the Viet Cong, the Filipino terrorists were experts at ambush, using bamboo cannon loaded with scrap iron in place of Charley's captured Claymore mines. Hatred...
Integrated Textbooks. In the wave of curriculum reform now sweeping the public schools, the techniques of helping children to "discover" truths and relationships is of central importance. Lucy Sprague Mitchell, a John Dewey disciple who founded the school and ran it until her retirement in 1956, knew all about the discovery method many years ago. She had all the school's heating pipes painted red and all the water-pipes blue. Then, when the children asked why, she let them follow the colors to the furnace and water main...
...books with adult vocabularies, wrote her own Here and Now Story Book in words that kids really use. Bank Street, accenting city settings and depicting both Negroes and whites, also turned out one of the nation's first "integrated" textbooks. Still, while Mrs. Mitchell, now 88, adopted many Dewey ideas to make school a happy experience, she deplored the progressive schools that overemphasized "life adjustment." They were likely, she warned, to "raise a generation of well-adjusted morons...
...City liberal bloc has been decisive in the string of Republican successes in New York during the last twenty-five years. They have cheerfully deserted Democrats for Dewey, Ives, Javits, Rockefeller, Lefkowitz, Keating, and, most recently, Lindsay. In local races, they traditionally shun those Democrats against whom the Liberals have run their own candidate or supported the Republican...