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...classroom at the University of Chicago one morning last week, a group of city high-school students wrestled with an odd sort of problem. The class happened to be in mathematics, but the sort of math the teen-agers were tackling went far beyond anything that even most college students know. Based partly on the theories of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, it involved symbolic logic and sentence calculus. "Logically valid conditionals and bi-conditionals, or the implications they embody," blithely explained the professor, "give rise not only to rules of sound inference-by which to proceed step...
...Advancement of Education, Dunkel started some college-level courses for high-school pupils, invited a number of high-school teachers to sit in as observers. In this way, says he, "you not only get the two groups of teachers together to discuss their problems, but you get them to work together on living students. It's also just about the only way to answer the old argument that the college expects too much of the high school: if you expose high-schoolers to college work, you can soon find...
...believe," says he, "that I am not going too far in saying that [U.S.] education at the high-school level is mediocre. The fault does not lie with the teaching staff. The tenets of democratic egalitarianism are so strong in the United States that they assume a downright metaphysical importance. The postulate goes this way: All minds must have an equal chance at the start. They are like fertile fields; all that needs to be done is to sow them with method and prevent their differences from growing more marked, since differences contradict the principle of fundamental equality...
...meet ladies in ankle-dusting tennis skirts escorted by blades in gaily banded boaters. But last week Newport's narrow streets were thronged with loud-shirted bookie types from Broadway, young intellectuals in need of haircuts, crew-cut Ivy Leaguers, sailors, Harlem girls with extravagant hairdos and high-school girls in shorts. They were cats. From as far away as Kansas they had come to hear a two-day monster jazz festival...
...Russian-controlled "Soviet faction," while only one pays allegiance to the "Yenan faction," as the Red China side is called. Of the 15-man Presidium, ten members are "Soviets" against only two "Yenans" and three local North Korean Reds. Even culturally, the Chinese are in eclipse (Pyongyang high-school students have to spend one hour a day learning Russian...