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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prime Minister Nehru, who is apt to agonize over the mildest New Statesman rebuke. In Britain, it is relished or reviled with equal fervor. Wrote Irish Author Sean O'Faolain: "It is the British bible of every washed-up Liberal, soured Conservative, lapsed Catholic, half-baked grammar-school intellectual, and every other unhappy misfit, pink and pacifist, whose sole prophylactic against despair, if not suicide, is a weekly injection of Kingsley Martin's Bottled Bellyache...
Output: 20,000. The son of a barber in London's Maiden Lane, Turner never got enough education to make him sure of his grammar or his diction, but he was turning out competent drawings at the age of twelve which his proud father peddled to customers for one to three shillings. Two years later, in 1789, young Turner was admitted as a student to the Royal Academy at a council meeting presided over by the redoubtable Sir Joshua Reynolds. He was a small fuss-budget of a boy with unruly long curls and a large nose. He seldom...
...long-ailing father believed that "there are only two reasons for having money to get the best room in the hospital and to educate one's children." From the start, Alan had a first-rate education Manhattan's Columbia Grammar School; Bedales School in Hampshire, England; Choate School. As a prep-school boy, Alan was fastidious but full of enthusiasm. Says his brother Richard: "He was the only one I've ever known who could play 60 minutes of gutsy football on a muddy field and not get his uniform dirty...
Many educators question whether humans can be taught this way. But there is already ample evidence that in subjects that lend themselves easily to fragment learning, e.g., grammar, spelling, foreign languages, mathematics, automated teaching is far more efficient than the old-fashioned blackboard. New York's Collegiate School for boys tried teaching machines in math, found that 73 students completed in only two weeks an abstract-algebra course that usually requires two months. The Roanoke public schools used teaching machines on 34 eighth-graders-with no oral teaching and no homework-and in less than one semester...
Teaching & Thinking. Unlike all-out progressive educators, Hansen refuses to "leave learning to chance." Though Ami-don's youngsters will get plenty of "experience-centered activities," they will not be "lost in a hodgepodge of unit teaching." Reading begins with phonics in first grade and formal grammar starts in fourth grade (two years earlier than in most U.S. schools). Writing is heavily emphasized because it "improves and refines thinking"-and the same goes for math and science. More outrageous yet by progressive standards, geography focuses on specific places, and U.S. history is taught in chronological order "to develop...