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...these stories are the work of Education Editor Robert Shnayerson, 34, who himself attended twelve schools as a child, ranging from extremely progressive to proper prep. He particularly recalls the four years he spent at now-defunct Manumit School at Pawling, N.Y., "a strange school on a farm. We drove trucks at nine years and plowed with tractors, slaughtered pigs and took care of the cows. But I didn't learn anything about anything." He joined the Navy at 17, for three wartime years in the North Atlantic...
Organizers of the Progressive Schools' Committee were Mr. & Mrs. William Mann Fincke Jr., who run little Manumit School on a 175-acre farm in the Berkshire foothills at Pawling, N. Y. Aided by scholarship funds from an anonymous philanthropist, Mrs. Fincke, a buxom, vivacious blonde, daughter of famed Feminist Louise Fowler Gignoux, took under her motherly wing six adult refugees (including a German actress who supported herself and daughter in the U. S. by scrubbing floors), 23 children (Gentiles & Jews) of lawyers, bankers, teachers, artists. Last week Mrs. Fincke had some astounding stories to tell of refugees' behavior...
...Refugee children refuse to listen when their schoolmates tune in Adolf Hitler's broadcasts to the U. S. One little girl at Manumit could not be persuaded to take off her underwear when she went to bed, had nightmares in which she dreamed that German storm troopers broke into her room. A boy constantly drew pictures of machine guns, tanks, people shooting Hitler...
...When the children, habituated to working under orders in Germany, were given the voluntary responsibility of feeding chickens at Manumit, the chickens went hungry...
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