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...examinations they were taking were the awesome "selection tests"-Britain's new way of finding out just what sort of secondary education each child should have. If he does well, he will win a coveted "place" in one of the "grammar" schools, and there he will get a solid academic education that may eventually lead him to a university. If he does not do so well, he will be sent to a "central" or "secondary technical" school where he will spend more time on vocational training. The bottom 60% of the children will end up in a "secondary modern...
...show in Milan. Ever since then, Severino's intricate pen & ink studies of such subjects as lizards, snails, fish, insects, flowers, vegetables and bike races have kept right on winning prizes in juvenile art shows at home and abroad. Severino's classmates at the village grammar school in Sant' Arcangelo soon caught the fever, formed a hard-painting little group known as "the School of Severino." Paramount Films did a movie short about the youthful artists. In last year's ECA International Child Art Competition (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951), several of the top prizes in Italy...
Besides the standard topics of Anthropology, Fine Arts, Law, the University receives treatises on subjects such as Afrikaans Literature, Sex Relations and Feminism, Friesian Language, Low German Literature, Albanian Literature, and Hungarian Grammar...
...When I arrived in this country I knew very little grammar. So I spent the three months of the fall of '49 learning English at Syracuse University. And when I came to Flether, I found that our methods of teaching are much different. I can read well now but I still have difficulty speaking to and understanding people...
...satire hauled up from the deep old Orwell. Here, in a prison barracks in suburban New York, on a black night somewhere this side of 1984, sits a U.S. liberal jailed by the Russian conquerors, and remembers how indifferent she was to a poor, underfed little girl back in grammar school ; the girl has grown up to be Comrade Hilda Kantrowitz, the public prosecutor...