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...take a much higher proportion of scholarship students, is determined to fulfill Labor's goal to rid education of the so-called "eleven-plus" examination that in state-run schools forces children apart at the age of eleven-the top group streaming off to the academically superior "grammar schools," and the rest going on to conventional secondary schools. He will also implement Wilson's decision to open no new universities for the next ten years and instead to pour money and talent into expanding the existing ones...
...universe through science. But progress is slow. A rigidly fundamentalist approach to doctrine and discipline dominates Islam outside the cities. Moreover, it was only last year that physics, medicine and engineering courses were introduced at Islam's best-known university, Al Azhar in Cairo. In West Africa, Moslem grammar schools do little more than teach children enough Arabic to read the Koran; when one group of Moslem women in Nigeria last year set up a Western-style secondary school, they had to hire as teachers two Christians...
Funnel Function. This places unusual demands on the junior college, which often runs honors courses for gifted students at the same time that it offers remedial courses in English grammar and mathematics to salvage the lower-ranking high school graduate. And in its unique function as an educational funnel, it must counsel its students on which of the three broad paths each is best able to follow...
...schools I have no pleasant memories. The Austrian schools were just as bad, but at least they taught me German. Like most Continental systems, we studied about twenty-five subjects with twenty-five dogmatic texts. We missed all the beauty of Latin poetry because we were too busy studying grammar and syntax. We learned the techniques of calculus without understanding them--I can still do calculus problems in my sleep...
...herself was educated only through the ninth grade; unthinking people hurt her deeply by imitating her weak grammar or by ascribing to her an accent she does not have. The mere mention of a high school dropout will start her lecturing: "You never know, one of these kids may have something but not the money or means to finish...