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...fallacious to assume that integration cannot take place without busing children or that busing children will bring about integration during nonschool hours. It is an absolute fact that money spent on busing is money that cannot be spent for education, so education will necessarily suffer, and it has. ANITA THOMPSON Jacksonvile
Desegregating Ages. Worse, says Illich, much of what schools now teach is a waste. As he sees it, "most people acquire most of their knowledge outside of school," the way children master speaking and walking. Middle-class parents tacitly admit the potency of nonschool learning, Illich observes dryly, when they "commit their children to a teacher's care to keep them from learning what the poor learn on the street." Beyond that, recent studies have shown that much formal schooling has little bearing on success...
...talent." Businessmen's luncheon clubs are too inclined to call up a school music director and ask him to "send the band over at noon." Schools, too, have been at fault; one music director, who boasted of the size of his department, explained that frequent student performances at nonschool events were "good for our public relations." Promised Superintendent Edwards: Music teachers will be encouraged...
...Mount Aspen tantalizingly visible from classroom windows. When book learning shuts down at noon every Wednesday, almost the entire school population gathers at the ski school on the mountain. The high school's ski team is among the state's best, and individual students rank high in nonschool meets...