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...authors calls the "life-centered"--approach to education demands the interaction of the student with the community, effected through school field trips and parental visits and interest in the school. In community, after community, parents have had to take a stand where schools themselves have failed to provide some facet of educational experience that the intelligent portion of a locality strongly felt was worthwhile...
...explanation of this difference lies another facet of parent-school interdependence. The Newton board takes great care to send out to all parents in the community extensive reports of each of its meetings, and encourages parents to talk with teachers, principals, board members, and the Superintendent. "Anybody in this city can walk in the door and speak his peace," Harold Gores, Newton Superintendent of Schools, maintains. This encouraging of intimate, individual parent-school contact prevents a community from looking upon the school committee as a power structure that must be beaten down in order to have...
Part of the Eyre tradmark that one cannot miss is his constant use of colored glasses, fitted to his prescription. His dress could not be called fastidious, though he believes clothes are a significant facet of character. "I think one must dress for other people...one should dress according to one's class. That's an important thing with me, class. In America, class is determined by money. That is not right. It is true that in the United Kingdom many persons in the upper class have lost their money, but that doesn't matter It depends on family...
...Bridge. Thousands of Americans who see the Queen during the coming round of balls and receptions, and millions more who get only a glimpse on the television screen, may detect Philip at this small but important task. But this is only one facet of a larger achievement. In the increasingly equalitarian Britain of the postwar years, Britain's monarchy found itself subject to a questioning, scarcely articulated, of the utility of an expensive royal household whose members saw only other aristocrats and seemed chiefly concerned with horse racing or - shooting grouse. But today, Britain's throne has never...
Luther's slow rebellion during the next decade is a puzzling, fascinating story to theologian and psychiatrist alike. Tentatively, the earnest, orthodox-minded monk began to stray from the fold-and with every step he took, a new, hidden facet appeared in his character until he became the very opposite of his former self...