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...make school make sense to them." But the problem of high school violence reaches far beyond the classroom. It involves the rising frustration of life in the cities and the agitation of self-seeking adults demanding black (or white) power-compounded by the turmoil within teenagers as they grope toward maturity...
...years ago, a Scandinavian composer proclaimed: "I believe in Bach, Mozart, Carl Nielsen, and absolute music." Carl Nielsen? At the mention of the Danish composer's name, most non-Scandinavians could only look blank or grope for their music dictionaries. Nielsen's reputation in his homeland had been supreme since his death in 1931 at 66, but unlike his Finnish contemporary Jean Sibelius, he was a nobody in the European and especially the U.S. music world...
...Bible says Thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness.' One feels occasionally that for us it is that kind of noonday." Thus, in a speech at the University of North Carolina last week, John Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, articulated the Administration's concern at the rancorous tone that is now so pervasive in America. "More and more," said Gardner, "hostility and venom are the hallmarks of any conversation on the affairs of the nation...
Every airport manager in the nation is aware of the looming crisis, and many have already begun to grope for solutions. Cleveland recently decided to extend its rapid transportation lines four miles to reach its Hopkins airport. Chicago has mulled over the possibility of damming Lake Michigan near the Loop for additional airfield space. And New York is debating a fourth airport, which may be 50 miles or more...
...learning can be forced into nifty patterns is quietly emerging as one of U.S. education's most damning critics. In his 1964 book, How Children Fail, Teacher John Holt unreeled a series of classroom anecdotes to show that children-beset by teacher-imposed fear, confusion and boredom-merely grope for right answers, rather than understand. In a sequel, How Children Learn, to be published next month, he illustrates the spontaneous ways in which kids embrace knowledge before they enter schools, where they "learn to be stupid...