Word: mcguffey
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...McGuffey's Readers marked a milestone in U.S. education. What textbooks will become the McGuffeys of tomorrow? A notable contender for the role of McGuffey's successor is a Stanford professor of education, Paul Robert Hanna, supervisor and part author of a thumpingly successful series of elementary school textbooks on social questions. Last week teachers were leafing through two new additions to the series...
...curtsey, the . world's biggest school system last week coyly re-enacted its birth. New York City's Board of Education was 100 years old. To celebrate, it dressed its little girls in pinafores and pantalettes, its little boys in jackets and Buster Brown collars. They read McGuffey readers, wrote on slates, drank water from dippers. Bearded teachers brandished canes at boys in dunce caps. A gentleman impersonating an old-time school trustee drove up to P.S. 15, The Bronx, in a gig. The city's schoolchildren were so bored they didn't even giggle...
...modern text has so exclusive a claim to the title of Teachers' Friend as had the famed McGuffey Readers. But some 400,000 schoolmarms (two-thirds of all U.S. public grade school teachers) draw regular inspiration from a modern counterpart of McGuffey whose lessons are said to reach 14,000,000 pupils: a magazine called The Instructor. Last week the 50-year-old Instructor got a new boss: Miss Helen Mildred Owen, daughter of the magazine's founder. Energetic, fortyish, long the magazine's managing editor, she took over last week as president of the firm...
...story book version of that trial generally sounds slightly McGuffey; Hollywood's vast inflation of it is louder and funnier and off its historical base in almost every particular. Cinemauthor Lamar Trotti last week explained: "When I was working as a reporter on the Atlanta Georgian, I covered a murder trial and became very interested in the accused man and his family. I've always wanted to do a story about them, and this is it. . . . It's really only a whodunit...
...educational plan is to produce a nation of handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian, no literature for its own sake. Fond of moral precepts such as abound in the McGuffey Readers, Henry Ford values as literature Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith, because of its message. He likes to read to children these McGuffey verses...