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...most stimulating ideas I have come across in my educational studies are one by Rousseau: namely that education should be adapted to the heart of the pupil; and another by a Rabbi: "May the educators of youth not clip the wings of youth." I was therefore greatly interested in hearing John Dewey say, in the spring of 1931 before the Harvard Teachers Association, that there were two charges against education: It neglected to make an appeal to the imagination and to the emotions...
Died. Dr. Ross Granville Harrison, 89, spare, retiring biologist who pioneered (1907) in growing cells independent of the organism from which they were taken, stimulated a pupil, Dr. John Enders, to use the same tissue-culture method to grow a polio virus (1949) that led to the Salk vaccine, taught biology and zoology (1907-38) at Yale; in New Haven, Conn...
...foes of rapid integration won a round in Arkansas last week. Taking its cue from a U.S. Supreme Court decision, which upheld the constitutionality of Alabama's pupil-placement law last winter, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled that a similar law in Arkansas is legal. Under the law, Arkansas school boards have full authority to assign students on the basis of qualifications not essentially concerned with race...
...handsome, fast-driving Diplomat John E. Peurifoy, who, along with his younger son, was killed (1955) at the wheel of a Thunderbird in Thailand; in Tulsa, Okla. When his father was Ambassador to Greece, young John, a wheelchair spastic, was told by Queen Frederika: "In school the best pupil is always given the hardest problems to solve. God gave you the hardest problem of all, so you must be his favorite pupil...
Other new procedures in the teaching of language are being worked on by the SUPRAD experimenters at the Newton High School. These involve the use of 36 long-playing records for French I and II containing the vocabulary and idioms of the textbook reworked into short conversations. The pupil will sign out a new record every two lessons, and part of his assignment each day will be a section of the record to do at home...