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...excellent ... I thought I knew something about education, having taught at each level from kindergarten through post-doctoral research (I'd been in private schools, public colleges and large universities...
...city's huge educational mill is without effect. It is already possible, here & there across the city, to look into the system's hopeful future. The astounding effects of enlightened slum clearance and enlightened teaching are dramatically evident, for instance, at P.S. 133, a clean, airy new kindergarten-to-sixth-grade elementary school in deepest Harlem...
Modern Times. In Springfield, Ill., five-year-old Marsha Howard reported to her family that kindergarten offered only "tricycles and bicycles and a little red wagon for little kids," refused to go back because "they don't teach typing or arithmetic...
...Though classrooms line a traditional central corridor at Maine's Bar Harbor school, Architect Alonzo Harriman has been able "to bring trees and sky into the center of the building by clerestory windows." He also places small panes of brightly colored glass in the kindergarten window wall "to enable the younger children to see the outdoors in different colors." To cut costs, Harriman advocates the use of "more prefabricated units such as wall and ceiling panels, heating and ventilating units for classrooms that are completely self-contained. One of the chief causes of wasteful school building," says he, "occurs...
...Field, a heather-dotted plot of land in Westphalia which most Germans know well. There Germany took to the air in gliders, after the World War I victors had decreed that the conquered must not fly powered planes. There future pilots came to train, in a kind of Luftwaffe kindergarten. After World War II, the victors prohibited flying again, but lifted the ban on gliders two years ago. Last week Orlinghausen was the scene of Germany's first postwar gliding championships...