Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ivan & Johnny...
...sincerest gratitude for your handling of my book What Ivan Knows That Johnny Doesn't in the Education section of the Nov. 17 issue. I feel that TIME has performed a very valuable service in calling nationwide attention to serious problems in the quality of American education by the comments not only on my book but upon the book Tomorrow's Illiterates as well. Altogether the piece was in the very best TIME tradition...
...wonder if Ivan ever heard of Jesus Christ. I've heard of Karl Marx and Ivan can have him! I wonder if Ivan has heard of Lincoln or Dag Hammarskjold? Poor Ivan, Stalin has just hit the dust. What a way to learn history...
This week Trace stated his case in What Ivan Knows That Johnny Doesn't (Random House; $3.95), a comparison between Russian and U.S. non-science textbooks. He argues that humanities are "dangerously neglected" in U.S. schools and that Russian children get "vastly more thorough training" in those subjects...
...Ivan Illich, 35, was born in Vienna; his mother was a Spanish Jew and his father was a Yugoslav Roman Catholic. He took a Ph.D. in history at Salzburg when he was 24, studied theology at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1951. He came to New York City, became interested in Puerto Ricans...