Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What disturbs some parents most is the fear that their children will make fewer friends because they stay at home. "Yes, she's a little lonely," admits a father whose eight-year-old daughter is learning at home, "and in a few years that could be more of a problem." John Holt bristles when the issue of social skills is raised. Says he: "If I had no other reason to keep kids out of school, the social life would be enough. In all the schools I know anything about, the social life of the children is meanspirited, competitive, exclusive, status...
...course, few stay-at-homes can hope for the kind of instruction that John Stuart Mill got both from his father James, one of the most brilliant men of 19th century England, and from Jeremy Bentham; or that Alexander the Great got from a tutor named Aristotle. But even those who reject Holt's radical solution find it hard to disagree with his view that administrative gobbledygook too often comes between children and their desire to learn. "People have been transmitting knowledge and skills for centuries," notes Holt. "Not everyone does it equally well, but it is an accessible skill...
Henry Fonda, on his failings as a father: "It is only in the last two years that I have been able to say I love you' to my children. Of course I have loved them since they were born...
...know, the other day I was in New York and this college student came up to me and introduced himself. Turns out I had tutored his father when he was in high school in Brooklyn." Kaplan sighs and smiles. "If his Dad had told me way back then that I'd have 80 centers and a place like this," he continues, "I would have told him to have his head examined...
...most consistent performances are William Falk's as Josephine's father, Captain Corcoran, and Patty Woo's as Buttercup. Both seem to know instinctively that they have to keep a lot of activity on stage, and their duet, "Things Are Seldom What They Seem," was the best number of the evening. Weary may sing better, but Falk and Woo tiptoe, mug and enliven their business the way the whole cast might have...