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...place reeks of tent pegs and clean living," scoffs one critic about Scotland's famed Gordonstoun School. Founder Kurt Hahn, 74, is often accused of "Germanizing" British education. But as they met last week in London, 900 Old Boys of Gordonstoun took pride in more than the presence of a famed alumnus, Prince Philip, or the fact that Top People now clamor to get on the waiting list. Their real pride lay in the resolute character that they feel Gordonstoun gave them...
German-born Schoolmaster Kurt Hahn thought out his concept of a school while a student at Oxford's Magdalen College, where he watched tame deer browsing .spiritlessly in the park and saw an analogy with tame schoolboys. Turning to Plato's Republic for guidance, Hahn designed a stern academy to "molest" the overly contented. His "seven laws": 1) give children opportunities for selfdiscovery; 2) make them meet with triumph and defeat; 3) give them the opportunity for self-effacement in a common cause; 4) provide periods of silence; 5) train the imagination; 6) make games important...
When Mrs. Hahn and her children appeared on the show, one viewer in New Haven, Conn. refused to swallow any of it. Claiming that he had been separated from his wife for some four years, Abraham Hahn also said that he had refused the producers' invitation to take part in the show, choked up when he heard Edwards tell all America that the only reason Mother's husband was not on the show was that he had slightly injured his foot at his foreman's job (at West Haven's Technical Rubber Inc.). In extolling...
Calling a press conference, Mrs. Hahn gave a different version of the story. She had written to This Is Your Life suggesting they do a show about her 18-year-old daughter who had been nearly blind as a young child, had gained normal sight and become a nascent actress (Horn & Hardart Children's Hour, small Broadway parts). This Is Your Life turned out to be more interested in a portrait of the self-sacrificing mother and her husband, said Mrs. Hahn. As for that episode in magistrate's court, she had taken her daughter there...
...spokesmen declared that Ralph Edwards had been hoaxed, and Edwards, who once produced a program called Truth or Consequences, blandly insisted that nothing in the show's "research" indicated that the Hahn family was anything but blissful. He did not explain just what he meant by research, but then, that is his life...