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...member of a peculiar British institution, half open-air reformatory and half military kindergarten, known as Army Boys' Technical Training Battalion. "Belsen" is his name for Hurlingford, the battalion's base, and his judgment on civilian life is "oujamaflick"-his word for "iniquity," which the outside world is a sink of. Dinger Bell is the narrator-hero of an autobiographical novel by an Englishman who himself became an "apprentice" soldier at 14. As he remembers it, "the junior intake" at Hurlingford is possibly the most pathetic body of British men-at-arms since Justice Shallow filled his draft...
Three years ago Marson quit Boston Latin after teaching English there for 31 years (TIME, March 10, 1958). He left with a blast: "The American school system, from first grade through college, has become a huge kindergarten." Marson spells out his charge in a new book, A Teacher Speaks (David McKay; $3.95). No sensationalist ("I feel as though I am doing a mental and spiritual strip-tease before a mob on Boston Common"), Marson hopes "to reveal some of the causes as well as the potential cures for a very sick educational system...
...many kindergarten kids bored by kindergarten? Because that boring "play school" is woefully behind the times, says Kindergarten Teacher Virginia C. Simmons in the current Harper...
...former public high-school teacher, Author Simmons*began teaching in Cincinnati Country Day School's kindergarten eight years ago. "Contrary to the opinion of experts," she writes, "I find that fives can reason; their ears can hear phonics; their eyes can read, their muscular coordination does permit them to learn to write . . . They are enthusiastic, curious, keenly observant, open-minded, ager to learn, receptive and imaginative. As sheer pupil stuff, they are a teacher's dream come true...
...waste our five-year-olds?" asks Teacher Simmons. "The most important part of an education is the beginning . . . There is no such thing as an unimportant or expendable year in any child's life. In kindergarten, the five-year-old is just starting. The direction he is pointed and the momentum he gets may well determine his intellectual growth...