Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fifth birthday, his parents were separated. Mother, who remains a major influence in his life (Geneen's father is now dead), sent him to a succession of boarding schools and summer camps. At Suffield (Conn.) School, the older boys got Springfield rifles for military drill while the younger ones got only wooden ones. "So there I was," he recalls, "the smallest kid in the school, carrying my little wooden rifle with one hand, and trying to keep my puttees up with the other...
Lost Love. Holt's basic complaint ever since has been that schools test, drill and grade children so often that they lose interest in the meaning of what is being taught, and schooling becomes a charade in which the students' real aim is to escape embarrassment and pain. By contrast, before he gets to school, Holt argues, a child has "a love affair with life." In fact, his attitude toward everything in the world about him is to "taste it, touch it, heft it, bend it, break it-and he is not afraid of making mistakes...
...practical effort to break the boredom of repetitive drill in grammar, spelling, vocabulary and composition has been successfully carried out in a two-year experiment at Purdue University. Called "Project English" and financed by Purdue and the U.S. Office of Education, it ignored the traditional separate classes in these topics for some 4,800 seventh-graders in 14 Midwest cities. Instead, the students were immersed in some relatively difficult but intriguing works of literature, on the theory that reading good writers who have interesting things to say is a more natural way to acquire good English than by attacking...
Still there are some jokes. Like when the older brother unveils the machine that will drill their way to the jewels and the younger brother inquires, "Where'd yew get it? Rent-a-Lazar?" Or when the older brother moves majestically around his kitchen ,wearing a crown and frying bacon. The next minute you expected to see him whipping up pancakes with the sceptre...
...graduates have yet reached Viet Nam, Colonel Koob is certain that their training will pay off in combat. It has certainly paid off in enthusiasm. One Benning non-com claimed last week that recruits actually sprinted back from a ten-minute break to be in time for BB-gun drill...