Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Garwood, NJ. has tried the Mae Carden system. This ignores pictures, makes pupils use new words and sentences and then break the sentences down into their logical parts. "Garden children," says Mae Garden, "read sentences, not words." The system stresses "functional grammar" with some phonics. All this, according to Inventor Garden, works wonders...
...every stage," said Chemist Hildebrand, "there were watchful men who honestly believe more in 'social competency' than in grammar and arithmetic, and, because good-natured committeemen try to fix up their reports so as to make every member happy, anything seriously critical of certain doctrines and practices largely responsible for the present deplorable and dangerous situation [in the schools] could not get through." In discussing Topic i-What should our schools accomplish?-six members out of eleven at Hildebrand's Table No. 40 flatly declared that the schools are trying to do too much. But when...
...jeopardized." All in all, concluded Hildebrand, the conference completely failed to come to grips with the real crisis in education. A proper attack on that crisis "would not have brought forth '14 points' with no analysis of -their relative importance, where subjects like chemistry or grammar' that can be taught, are confused with 'attitudes,' such as 'respect and appreciation for human values . . .' that can be caught by association with those who have them, but not taught. In place of the complacent statement that 'the schools are doing the best job in their...
Please, when our President was just out of the hospital, couldn't someone have corrected his thanks for welcoming "Mrs. Eisenhower and 'I'"? What will some of these culturally snooty countries think of America's grammar! And on the first page of your National Affairs [Nov. 21] section...
...Curiouser and curiouserl" cried Alice, when, after eating the cake in the rabbit's cavern she began to grow nine feet tall. While most Harvard people would correct Alice's grammar, and blame Malthus rather than the cake, the note of incredulity usually remains as they watch the University's policy toward the rapidly rising demand for a Harvard College education...