Word: kindergartener
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...noted that Daniel Wood Spock (8 Ibs. 5 oz.) has the long-boned family heels, shipped off to the papa, Dayton Museum of Natural History Employee Michael Spock, a free copy of the bestselling (some 10 million copies) manual that has helped mold countless U.S. kiddies from cradle to kindergarten. Wise Dr. Spock promised to steer clear of ad-lib footnotes. Said he: "Don't meddle in your grandchildren's upbringing...
...sunny room at Smiths Hospital, Henley-on-Thames, England, children sat at small tables last week putting colored pegs into holes. Except that the children were psychotics-mostly the scarred offspring of disturbed parents-the room had all the friendly calm of any normal kindergarten. What made it doubly so was the children's custodians, placid-looking young women in their early 20s, who spoke little but seemed unusually affectionate. They sat with their arms around the children, frequently hugged and kissed them. It was no chore to the women; they were all mental defectives, who think...
...search for the source of America's educational woes never flags. This year we turn back to the secondary schools where are sown the problems that Universities like Harvard later fall heir to, through no fault of their own. We will not stop there you may be sure. Tomorrow, kindergarten; the next day, the womb...
Primarily there was the philosophy of education trumpeted by the educator quoted above--"life-adjustment." Almost every high school in the nation requires its students to take at least two semesters of diluted kindergarten psychology usually called something like "senior problems." The textbooks, veiled in the blushing sociological jargon of the thirties, hint at sex and domestic problems long since resolved with a good deal more clarity in schoolyards and on lavatory walls. If the high school student hadn't conquered them by his senior year, he was already an irrevocable neurotic...
...Gary has eight high schools. This arrangement was instituted so that students would not have far to travel to school even though the city is sprawled over a large area. Each high school has an elementary school in the same building, and many pupils attend Horace Mann from kindergarten through twelfth grade...