Word: pedagoguese
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So runs the litany of epithets that have greeted the French government's latest stab at educational reform. The reform frees lycee (secondary school) students, who take their first modern foreign language at the age of eleven, from the obligation of starting a second language when they are 13...
On the campuses, groups of radical students sought nothing less than the destruction of the university. Columbia nearly fell to them last spring, and San Francisco State College was still reeling under their attacks as the old year closed. Despite the Administration's halting steps toward peace, massive antiwar...
Reluctant Rethink. Publication of the petition brought angry cries from Stockholm's "cultural radicals"-the powerful Establishment of secular-minded writers, editors and pedagogues who have been instrumental in, making Sweden a sociological laboratory. "The letter wants to introduce blind authoritarianism!" roared one newspaper, Dagens Nyheter. Authoress Kristina Ahlmark...
In the 1930s, Harvard's Graduate School of Education was so poor in pocket and prestige that President James B. Conant was tempted to padlock it. And then, characteristically. Conant thought of upgrading its mission instead. He devised the one-year Master of Arts in Teaching program, designed to...
Medieval society made no attempt to shield its children from sex. Adults commonly carried on sexual relations in front of them and thought their children's own forms of sexual play were enormously amusing. "There were two reasons for this," writes Aries. "In the first place, the child under...