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...school must foster not only desire and respect for knowledge but also the inquiring spirit. It must encourage the pupil to ask: 'How do I know?' as well as 'What do I know...
...Isosceles Triangles. Gone is the familiar desk to stash books and apple cores; each pupil every morning picks a plastic "tote tray" from a central rack. The kids hustle about all day in a bewildering variety of changes. Even the furniture arrangement is unpredictable. "They might be seated in rows, circles, squares or even isosceles triangles," says one teacher. "Or that day they might just want to clump around my desk...
...inadequate teaching. Good teachers take IQs lightly. At Louisville's Manly Junior High School, for example, one girl with an IQ in the "barely educable 80s" is in the top group "because she works hard and gets all A's." Mayer pointedly quotes John Stuart Mill: "A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do never does...
...heavy, Romanesque masonry works of 19th century Architect Henry Hobson Richardson (Boston's Trinity Church), the work of "our first truly indigenous master-builder." With The Brown Decades (1865-1895), Mumford mined another overlooked lode, set in perspective Chicago Skyscraper Poet Louis Sullivan and his great pupil, Frank Lloyd Wright...
...name Yankilevitch. When he was five, Byron started to play a toy xylophone like an old hand, soon afterward was playing piano on the radio. At 13, Byron Yanks, who shortly became Byron Janis, left home for good to study with a succession of teachers, finally becoming the only pupil of Vladimir Horowitz. He made his debut at 15 with the Pittsburgh Symphony, since then has been one of the most widely traveled of U.S. pianists...