Word: factualism
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Generally, Catholic educators have relied on religious texts based on the 1884 Baltimore Catechism - a turgid compendium of factual questions and answers that the student was expected to learn by role. Last week the Paulist fathers introduced a new catechism that puts dogma in language that children, rather than theologians, can understand. More important, it tries to relate the student's intuition of the divine to his own youthful experience...
Quoting Kozol out of context, or summarizing his story, cannot possibly convey the general restraint which allows such horrors to be mastered and integrated smoothly. His short, firm sentences, with their simple rhythms, have great incorporative power. Furthermore, the characters of David's dream repeat phrases that sound supremely factual and establish reassuring landmarks in our yoyages through the subconscious. Thus the wrestling coach: "Schreiber, I want you to such a lemon: when the acid gets on your tonsils it turns to sugar...
...teachers used to rigid lesson plans, broad-gauge humanities courses are hard to teach. Parents, too, sometimes wonder about the merit of programs that are not designed to prepare students for conquering the dry, factual state Regents exams. But educators believe that in the long run such courses help students establish values and concepts that will hold good throughout their lives. "The goal is discovery," says J. William Dodd, assistant to the Garden City superintendent. "We want to present issues and problems and let the kids solve them by themselves...
...read the book mostly for factual accuracy. Among other things, they failed to grasp the full implications of its portrayal of Johnson-possibly because neither is a full-fledged L.B.J. fan. When they met with Editor Thomas in Washington in May, all three agreed that "Manchester had used bad judgment, even bad taste in places." They suggested a number of changes to the author-but not enough to balance the book's bias. For once, the Kennedys' early-warning system had failed...
...that point began what a member of the Kennedy family describes as "a long era of negotiations." Through its agents, the family took a closer look at Manchester's first manuscript and realized that much more was wrong than a few factual errors. Pamela Turnure Timmins, Jackie's secretary, drafted a three-page memo detailing passages that Jackie found objectionable. Bobby met with Manchester at his Senate office in Washington and at his Virginia home the following month to discuss changes. Kennedy agents told Look that they had to approve the articles, but Look rejected the suggested changes...