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Education and occupation make a considerable difference. Nationalization has less appeal for those who went to college than for those who did not. Percentages favoring coal-mine nationalization: college, 10%; high school, 13%; grade school, 20%. White-collar workers favor Government ownership less than farmers do; farmers less than manual workers...
...schoolmasters, as a matter of course, still whipped by the chart (one lash for every foot above three climbed up a tree, two lashes for blotting a copybook). New York instituted night schools in 1847, children's classes in hygiene and sanitation in 1885, in sewing, cooking and manual training in 1887, lectures for workingmen...
Reader M. Valeriote [Sept. 21] sounds like a parochial school graduate who lost his faith in college when he was introduced to calipers and test tubes. If he had ever taken the trouble to consult even a third-rate manual in theology above the catechism level, he would have found that the doctrine that God transcends all human experience and imagination is a commonplace in Roman Catholic thought...
...native-born young Israelis, the "sabras" (nicknamed from an edible cactus that is prickly on the outside, soft and sweet within) who fought for their land like lions under the inspiration of Zionism, have been searching for a new source of inspiration. The intense Zionist ideology of heroic manual work in an atmosphere of collective equality looks to them more & more oldfashioned. The slogans have disappeared; their leaders have become government bureaucrats with American cars at their disposal; mailmen and railway clerks seem to be just as valuable to the state as "pioneers" who are willing to swelter...
...right on with such chores. Though they will study the usual prep-school courses and get their share of skiing, riding and playing, they will also plant, sew, dig irrigation ditches, scrub floors, haul wood, tend horses, clear paths, pound nails, rake leaves, paint walls, and do any other manual labor the Holdens can think...