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...dependent solely on relationships in the classroom. Pleasing television shows cannot erase the effects of alienation and exploitation. But curriculum planning and teaching methods can take advantage of some of what is known about child development. A classroom structured around a child's needs and desires will be a happier and more productive place than one planned for someone else's purposes. A fourth grade class's improvisation of animals escaped from a barnyard and recaptured by a farmer and his family evoked my memories of long rows of very hard desks, very soft pencils, and very long sentences...
...both sides, there has been a drawing back from anarchy and violence. As much as anything, Americans seem now to be seeking public limits and a private equilibrium, to be answering David Riesman's complaint: "Why are we so evangelical? Why do we not have a happier sense of the ordinary, of dailiness?" Americans have the vanity of thinking that the U.S. must be either the best country or the worst country. There is something reassuring and necessary in the acknowledgment that it is neither...
These people are much less aware of the rest of the world, but seem generally happier. Not much laughing on the buses in the capital, everyone is inhibited. Here they seem to laugh more, especially at me. But when I talk to them, I am embarrassed by what, seems to be deference to my whiteness. It may just be that I look so strange, some are awed, while others are entertained...
...Derek C. Bok-announced last week as Pusey's successor and currently dean of the Law School-Pusey said, "I could not be happier for myself or for the University in the choice they and you have made...
...could not be happier for myself or the University," Pusey said. "Dean Bok has shown himself admirably equipped to cope with the intensified demands posed for administrative officers in these difficult times...