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Concerning your Dec. 23 Education story on "group dynamics": it's men like Educationists jeep and Hollis who are mostly responsible for our youngsters' lack of interest in science, mathematics, languages and other subjects, and who, if they continue to dominate public education, will cause this country to lose the respect of the rest of the world...
Last spring, when three Americans traveling by jeep across the Tangeorkheh desert were ambushed and slain (TIME, April 8), the Iranian Cabinet fell, and the Shah of Iran personally ordered his gendarmes to bring in the head of the killer, a notorious bandit named Dadshah. Nineteen members of Dadshah's band (including his brother Ahmad Shah) were captured as they crossed the border into Pakistan; the rest scattered into the desert and the trackless barrens of the Kuh Sefid mountain range. Occasionally, Dadshah lashed out at his pursuers, as when he raided an encampment of tribesmen commissioned to capture...
...togetherness, life adjustment and the Organization Man were not enough, the U.S. must also bear up under something called "group dynamics." Last week in The Clearing House, a magazine for high school teachers, H. A. Jeep and J. W. Hollis of Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, Ind. described how group dynamics worked in a class in mental hygiene and in another class dedicated to "organizing the pupil personnel program." Teachers' Teachers Hollis and Jeep thought the results inspiring...
With group dynamics, a class need not cover any particular amount of ground, and must not treat the teacher as anything but a "resource person who sparks sharing or supplies material at a psychological time." "In a modern democratic society," say Hollis and Jeep, "the emotionally healthy learner seeks more and should seek more for the acceptance of his peers than for the acceptance of the teacher. Teacher approval tends to weaken peer approval." Students thought up most assignments, were "encouraged to do as much or as little reading as their individual needs seemed to require." The whole idea...
...Conclude Jeep and Hollis: "Group dynamics is an energy-consuming, but very rewarding, method for both students and teacher. Soul-searching and deep learning are always energy-consuming...