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...19th century the number of wastrels in the streets was so alarming that charity-minded society ladies established day nurseries in cities around the country. A few were sponsored by employers. Gradually, local regulatory boards began to discourage infant care, restrict nursery hours and place emphasis on a kindergarten or Montessori-style instructional approach. The nurseries became nursery schools, no longer suited to the needs of working mothers. During World War II, when women were mobilized to join wartime industry, day nurseries returned, with federal and local government sponsorship. Most of the centers vanished in the postwar years...
Fitness Council Chairman George Allen expects that Americans will look bad compared with Soviet students, who exercise an hour daily. He hopes the test will spur the U.S. into putting physical education "back in the school + systems, an hour a day, five days a week, kindergarten through twelfth...
...well-traveled poet visits Santo Domingo, where the series is being shot. Elsewhere, he alludes to his own movie, The Kindergarten, about his childhood in the Siberian town of Zima Junction. Fuku and the film share events and images of Yevgeny...
...reflects upon with profound satisfaction. "The greatest single piece of good fortune anyone can have," he says, "is work worth doing." To Adler, the essence of that work has been educational reform -- away from trendy relativism and back to absolute values, which he believes should be taught from kindergarten through graduate school. He especially deplores the contemporary notion that metaphysics is nonsense and that science and other subjects can be taught without reference to an individual's responsibility to society. "The lack of standards of right and wrong, good and bad, the notion that 'I can't say what...
...achievements and assess what he has made of himself. Julius Caesar, it is said, was moved to tears when he contemplated a statue of a young Alexander and considered the accomplishments of his own first 20 years. My own first such moment came at age four, when the Kindergarten putsch I had engineered was suppressed by the gym teacher...