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TIME's report of stag magazines [April 29] recalls memories of my high-school days 66 years ago in a small Hoosier town. We had no b. & b. magazines, so we turned to literature, both sacred and profane, to find the double-entendre and other glimpses of mysteries of man and woman. We found plenty...
Manageable Mediocrity. Stout first ran into trouble when he decided that the university should abolish entrance requirements for Nevada high-school graduates. He also did away with the Academic Council, which had played a part in forming university policy. To some faculty-men, Stout seemed not only highhanded; he also seemed a threat to academic standards. Especially critical was Biologist Frank Richardson, who in 1952 circulated among his colleagues an article by Historian Arthur Bestor Jr. attacking the brand of educational thinking that President Stout appeared to represent (TIME, June 15, 1953). To Stout, Richardson...
Because of the current teacher shortage, E.B.F. thinks that its influence will grow even greater. Last week it began to distribute a 162-session physics course by the University of California's Harvey White -the first full-length, high-school physics course ever put on film. The series is to be used not merely to supplement the work of the high-school teachers. It is primarily meant for an estimated 14,000 high schools that have no trained physics teacher at all. With other such projects in the works, E.B.F. may not only become more and more influential...
...Brands of Listening. According to the manual, a high-school social-studies class is just the place to take up such weighty matters as "sharing in making necessary repairs in the home" and "acquiring the realization that all lines of work have problems and responsibilities, as well as pleasures and rewards." If the student is expected to know much of anything about history aside from some fatuously chauvinistic scraps out of the American past, the manual does not say. Under the high-school section "Using Tools of Communication Effectively," Hildebrand counted 44 items on "listening," e.g., "listening to a telephone...
...subject called "language arts," high-school students might spend time "reading messages on movie and television screens to check their accuracy and relevancy" and "reading invitations, greeting cards." They can also master "using sign language" so they can interpret "directions indicated by hand or head signals," "the sign language of animals" and "traffic lights." Under the major function of "developing economic competence," they may learn about "returning things borrowed from fellow classmates promptly" (social studies), "operating audiovisual equipment" (science), "telling how a department store facilitates trade" (mathematics) and "observing 'Do It Yourself programs" (practical arts). Social studies can also...