Word: nairn
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...explanation for Prescott's rigorous "wilderness course," declares the school's president, Ronald C. Nairn, is that "man is a part of nature. Millions of years of his evolutionary history are rooted in life as a hunter, a nomad, an adventurer. Deep facets of personality and emotional needs are tied to his past Urban industrial society increasingly fails to meet these needs." gritty native spirt is only one part Prescott's unique educational program. The college has junked traditional academic departments and installed a system of wide-ranging integrated courses that bridge the gap between humanities...
...filling its classes. A chance to teach in small, informal seminars and high salaries ($14, average) have helped attract a strong and adventurous faculty. Support from Arizona citizens has been building as well; last year, Barry Goldwater donated his personal library to the college At Prescott, says President Nairn, who served as a New Zealand fighter pilot during World War II and holds a Ph. D. from Yale, "we are taking our past concepts of learning and giving them a new focus by which we can come close to the objective of that ancient Chinese aphorism: To have roots...
...Prexy Ronald Nairn of Prescott College [Sept. 23] acknowledges the enduring mystery of his own ignorance when he justifies the absence of education courses with the non sequitur, "We would love to teach education if we could find anyone who knew anything about it." Such Neanderthal thinking will earn him guffaws only from those mossbacks who believe that there have been no breakthroughs since the time of the Greeks. He might begin his search at Harvard, whose classical curriculum has not suffered from the fact that doctorates in education are offered there. All disciplines have advanced in recent years...
There will be no education courses at Arizona's Prescott College, a four-year liberal arts school that will open next week. Candidly acknowledging the enduring mystery of the process of learning, President Ronald C. Nairn explains: "We would love to teach education if we could find anyone who knew anything about it. This would be the greatest breakthrough since the time Greeks...