Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equally true of any other academic field, and there are certainly fields other than science in which America's anti-intellectual tendencies stand her in bad stead. A European quoted recently in Newsweek, said that he was genuinely surprised whenever he came across an American who could discuss modern art intelligently or indeed who could do anything more than tell him how wonderful things were in the United States...
...very important. In high school he's discovered that it doesn't take much more than monthly midnight oil to make straight A's, that there would be nobody around to guide him if he decided to do more than the regulations prescribed. "With all the complications of modern civilization," stated a principal of a 2000-student high school, "our primary business is just teaching our boys and girls how to get along with others." And that's what Herschell's high school spent three years doing--teaching him how to get along...
...might expect more thoughtful answers from Herschell Podge--a gifted child; most of the students questioned had never given much thought to the matters involved--matters, of course, basic to their modern society. But another national magazine survey revealed that the intelligent student merely refrains from comment on the questions...
...throughout the nation, school boards, and educational theorists hiding in our universities, have elaborate programs for action. Unfortunately, the ghost of "progressive education" haunts any program of experiment. The failure of total student freedom in the classroom, the neglect of basic skills for intellectual meandering,--those character defects of modern education which have come to be associated with "progressive education" have engendered in the minds of parents and the press an idea that education must return to the little red school house, the three R's, and the straightlaced New England discipline. Weekly, Time, the Saturday Evening Post and many...
...President Eliot's elective system was foreshadowed when Hebrew became elective, but with this exception, Harvard classes followed rigorously prescribed courses of study for almost two centuries. Classical studies were in time augmented by the addition of modern languages and laboratory sciences, which permitted some change in an otherwise rigid curriculum...