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...which has attracted generations of Roosevelts, has pioneered a new elementary reading program. The Convent of the Sacred Heart requires its first-graders to study French, memorize such poems as Blake's "Little Lamb, who made thee?", sends its older girls out on social work one afternoon weekly. Fieldston's 660 kids enjoy an 18-acre campus in the Bronx, a curriculum strong in arts, crafts, music and ethics (compulsory every year). Two of the oldest schools in the land, Collegiate (founded in 1638) and Trinity (1709), cling to their traditions of classical schooling, also boast student bodies...
...kids who sang that Depression ditty 30 years ago could not be more unlike the prosperous youngsters who sing it nowadays at New York City's private Fieldston School. Yet they are linked in thought and feeling through their history teacher, John A. Scott, 46, who gives his students a passion for possessing the past as if it were the present...
Scott recently staged a smash-hit "New Deal Assembly" at Fieldston, complete with soup kitchen, union songs and F.D.R. speeches. In other years, he has done as much for the Civil and Revolutionary wars. Scott is perhaps the leading practitioner of the most exciting new art in U.S. high school history teaching-throwing away textbooks and going to original sources...
...economics), married an American girl, and wound up an American citizen in the wartime U.S. Army (intelligence). He took his doctorate in European history at Columbia and taught for three years at Amherst. Sensing that secondary-school teaching might offer more challenge and satisfaction, he switched in 1951 to Fieldston (651 students), which is sponsored by New York's Ethical Culture Society...
...chairman of Fieldston's social-studies department. Scott spends only two hours a day in the classroom-allowing him to pursue his own scholarly research, which in turn he shares with students. He calls textbooks "mere dry husks of facts," insists that youngsters grapple firsthand with the issues and ideas of history. To convey "the human meaning-how people thought and suffered.'' Scott supplies documents that only scholars normally see. All it takes, he says, is a Mimeograph machine, the instrument "that gives back a student's heritage." As Scott sees it ("Historians have to take...