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...took a very, very boring industry?adult education???and we created a little pizazz," says Zanker, who rarely speaks below a shout and tends to sound like an LP played too fast. "Quality education we give, but in a showbiz atmosphere," he adds, drawing his legs up beneath him on his office chair and rocking back and forth as the words rattle out. "I give an average of 150 shows a night." The Annex is not the only show of its kind. In the past decade some 50 similar enterprises have started up, from California's thriving Learning Exchange...
...current mourning campaign has been more successful. SSRC plans its next show of strength this week, when Soweto's schools are scheduled to reopen. It has vowed to keep the township's 180,000 children home to protest the poor quality of primary and secondary education???free and compulsory for South Africa's whites but only optional for blacks, who must pay annual school fees of around...
...what if hard solutions to hard problems turn out to be unintelligible or unpalatable to the majority? Always assuming that the leaders and their experts have figured out what the solutions are in the first place, leadership then requires an extraordinary effort of persuasion and education???beginning in the home, which is everybody's first leadership class...
Whatever the faults of the U.S. educational system, it also has its glories. It made possible the miracles of modern technology and trained the scientists who sent man to the moon. For more students than any other nation can claim, it has provided the true Aristotelian education???"an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity." But the system seems out of kilter with reality. What can be done about it? Colleges and students must realize that education is something entirely apart from insurance for a status job. This is particularly true of the liberal arts, which in their proper...
...agony" of the slums. He sees no magic in having black kids sit beside whites in schools. "You don't learn anything by osmosis because you sit next to whites." Nevertheless, Jackson prefers school integration because "given the reality of American racism, white children are magnets for capital in education???whites don't intend to leave each other ignorant." As for black studies, Jackson finds them of value in developing self-appreciation, but suggests that it is more important to "spend our energy on the black future...