Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saint." Billy's parents went deep into debt, taking him to psychologists, psychiatrists and neurosurgeons (he had one brain operation, to no result). When they could borrow no more, their family doctor called Oreste Eslick Hood, director of Los Angeles' Institute for Child Study. Psychologist Hood said simply: "Bring the child to me." Billy's parents took him to Hood's special training school. There, for nine months, Hood lived and worked with Billy. Today, Billy is attending public school. Says his mother simply: "Mr. Hood is a saint...
...Psychologist Jones describes his task as "dauntingly stupendous." What makes it so, apart from the mass of research involved, is the special relation between Hero Freud and Biographer Jones. As analyst, Disciple Jones has to analyze the master of analysis. As biographer he must try to be objective about a man toward whom he has every reason to be subjective. Anyone who lacked Jones's imperturbable patience and sense of humor would collapse into hysterical symptoms at the thought of such a business...
...Psychologist Paul Woodring of Western Washington College of Education believes that the great debate over the U.S. public schools may be out of hand. "Critics have loudly denounced the schools as godless, Communistic, unAmerican, unenlightened and subversive, while the defenders have counterattacked with charges that the critics themselves are fascist, reactionary and, of course, unAmerican, unenlightened and subversive." Nevertheless, he is convinced that there is something wrong with U.S. education. Last week, in a new book called Let's Talk Sense About Our Schools (McGraw-Hill; $3.50), Woodring tells what. There is good reason, says he, for the fact...
...seclusion and thrust into strenuous social activity. If he wished to read poetry when other children were playing drop the handkerchief, the teacher first made an effort to entice or force him into the more social activity, and if this failed, she sent out a call for the school psychologist...The statement that education is a social process is a dangerous and misleading half-truth. Some education is social; some education must be solitary and individual...
...other words, says Psychologist Woodring, the new philosophy "has failed to tell us what is more important and what is less [important] in education." It has completely failed to realize that the best education for a changing world is "a thorough grounding in those things which [are] least likely to change." In short: "There is no dearth of facts, of principles, or higher truths for us to teach and to learn. Let us get on with the learning and the teaching...