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...teachers' colleges. Last week his horrible example was a 395-page teachers' manual published by the Chicago public-school system and put together by Paul R. Pierce, now a professor of education at Purdue. The manual bears the formidable title Source Materials of the Educational Program: A Guidebook of Living and Learning Experiences. In the six years it took to produce it, no less than 100 people contributed to it, but to Joel Hildebrand it is one of the most fantastic distortions of education "I have ever seen...
Initiate, Develop, Cultivate. Who decides what "study unit" to take up? Why, says the guidebook, mostly the pupils themselves. But once they have made their choice, e.g., "Building Good Relationships with Our Parents" in an eighth grade social-studies class, they are in for an elaborate process. First comes "initiating the unit," i.e., discuss why bother with it?, then "developing the unit" by 1) deciding on its objectives, e.g., "to cultivate the social customs which are necessary for gracious living," 2) planning the work, e.g., "select pupil personnel for the various activities," 3) carrying out the activities, e.g., "making...
Travelers' Aid. In Nara, Japan, city officials hastily recalled a guidebook prepared for touring college students after discovering that it offered complete information on the city's red-light districts, including names, addresses and rates...
...most mysterious master in the history of Japanese art was a printmaker who signed himself Sharaku, meaning depict pleasure. One spring day in 1794 Sharaku entered a guidebook and print shop on the edge of Edo's red-light district carrying some stark, needle-sharp portraits of Kabuki actors. The shopkeeper agreed to publish his drawings, so for the next ten months Sharaku depicted the pleasures of the stage. His prints sold badly, and Sharaku vanished, never to produce again. He left behind a body of work as exquisite as it was small: two painted fans, 17 drawings...
...Eisenhower has instructed Assistant Attorney General Barnes to rule on where the line of propriety should be drawn. Example: Is it proper for the Defense Department to award a contract to a firm whose president recently returned from a key Government post? Barnes may also bring out an official guidebook for the use of Government officials who still have business interests...