Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fairly easy to understand why the pupils in our schools are lagging in writing [TIME, Dec. 22]. One reason is the lack of necessity to write. Every year hundreds of tests and examinations are given in the "True or False" method. The pupil is given a paper on which the questions are printed with a space after each question marked "True or False?" . . . All that is required of the pupil is to put a check mark in one or the other of open spaces! ... In the old days, at least we profited to a certain extent in learning to express...
...took the Bolsheviks ten years to proclaim their first five-year plan. Last week the eager pupil outdid the master: only three years after the Communist conquest of China, Peking proclaimed a five-year plan. Said Premier Chou Enlai: "With the national territory entirely liberated, with the exception of [Formosa], with bandits now liquidated, and with agrarian reform nearly completed . . . the time has come...
Public Schools. "We believe in our public school system. It is unfair to say that where religion is not taught in a public school, that school is secular or Godless . . . On the other hand, a way must be found to make the pupils of American schools aware of the heritage of faith upon which this nation was established . . . On no account must an educational system which is permeated by the philosophy of secularism, something quite different from religious neutrality, be allowed to gain control of our public schools . . . In some constitutional way provision should be made for the inculcation...
...group also urged the Federal government to grant financial assistance to state public school system. Money would go to those states whose average spending per pupil is below the national average. The resolution emphasized that the states must retain complete discretion as to the use of the money...
...American marsupial, says Dr. Hartman, is a congenital moron. In its tiny skull there is room for only a meager brain. Fertility, not intelligence, is the reason for its survival. Its popping, jet-black eyes are all pupil and ought to be sharp at night, but even in daylight they are dim and dull. Only its hearing is keen (its thin ears curl over to keep out insects during sleep), and its bristling whiskers have a superfine sense of touch. On his short legs, the possum meanders in a slow, aimless shuffle. As a climber he shows his greatest skill...